In their different languages, codes of expression, practices and worldviews, art religion share a reflexive intention to symbolize the chaos, suffering ambivalence real. particular, aesthetic programme Christianity has sought combine opposites divine revelation attested in Scripture: chaos cosmos, earth heaven, betrayal reconciliation, wounding transfiguration, cross resurrection, sin forgivene...

The positions of Christian Wolff and Im­manuel Kant on the possibility proving existence God require some examination. Wolff’s critique physical-theological proof his proposed ways improving it are here analysed. is central to philosophical system fundamental prerequisite theoretical practical philosophy. Although insists that natural law inherent in human nature can therefore be comprehended b...

IE:;, r: ~;-, {fSinceits arrival on the public finance scene some 50 years ago, the Tiebout ~!inodel has played a strikingly diverse range of roles. Indeed, it appears, in ~important ways, to mean different things to different people. The mod~l has ~peen employed as everything from an algorithm for the resolution of the basic Jpreference-revelation problem in the theory of public goods to a des...

I study a simple model of moral hazard with soft information. The risk-averse agent takes an action and she alone observes the stochastic outcome; hence the principal faces a problem of ex post adverse selection. Some measure of truthful revelation is necessary to implement any effort, for which an audit is required. And for effort to be induced the agent must be offered a rent. There exists a ...

the book, the divine guide in early shi'ism, by dr. mohammad ali amir mo'ezzi is one important work in the study of shiism in the west. employing the method of phenomenology, amir mo'ezzi is concerned with the essence of imamiah shiism by appeal to the early and original works of imamiah (in particular, hadith collections). in his view, the essence of shiism is the theory of imam...

a letter authored by the well-known italian nobleman and traveller pietro della valle, dated 1624, is probably the oldest existing persian document in which modern astronomy, in particular the tychonic model, is introduced and discussed in detail. it was written in the reign of the safavid shah abbas i, less than a quarter of century after tycho brahe’s death. in part it was based on what his i...

One of materialism's and modernism's most serious flaws is their failure to take a holistic picture human life. Transcendental ideals are rejected by almost all modernist ideologists. To put it another way, there no objective, absolute standard for truth. Truth moral standards, on the other hand, only relative, with validity restricted time, location, situation. Modernists label societies found...