On 13 November 1888, Nietzsche wrote to his close friend Franz Overbeck1 about Ecce Homo: ‘an absolutely important book, gives some psychological and even biographical details about me and my writings; people will at last see me. The tone of the work, one of gay detachment fraught with a sense of destiny, as is everything I write’ (1996: 324). Ecce Homo, an attempt at an autobiography, was conc...

the principal problem in studying farabi’s political philosophy is working out the dilemma of his thought, which has adopted three sources: greek political philosophy, iranshahri (persian polis) pre-islamic political thoughts, and islamic courses; who doesn’t accommodate properly in orientalist’s trinary category: greek political philosophy/ fighi shari’at-name/ iranian siasat-name. this articl...

modern age due to its epistemological virtue has a special important, since it defined a new relation between human and truth, in which some modern philosophers, like descartes, kant and nietzsche have more roles. in this thought, human could take place as the center and criterion of understanding and interpretation of truth. in fact, human’s subjectivism has been of more important role in unde...

Philosophical inquiries into morality are as old as philosophy, but it may turn out that morality itself is much, much older than that. At least, that is the main thesis of primatologist Frans De Waal, who in this short book based on his Tanner Lectures at Princeton, elaborates on what biologists have been hinting at since Darwin’s (1871) book The Descent of Man and Hamilton’s (1963) studies on...

In writing Verbal Behavior, B. F. Skinner (1957) made clear his intention not to review the extant literature on the subject matter (Skinner, 1979, p. 282). Nonetheless, he did formally and informally cite many scientific, philosophical, and literary books and articles throughout his text. The formal citations appear as references in footnotes at the bottoms of pages, but are not found in any r...

Presented here is a research prospectus to approach a relatively new phenomenon of big data from a philosophical angle. With a preliminary groundwork completed, this research is in its planning stage. Recognizing that big data, although a novelty at the present moment, will soon become a mature technology, and also that it is an enabling technology to serve as a means to enhancing business perf...

Philosophical inquiries into morality are as old as philosophy, but it may turn out that morality itself is much, much older than that. At least, that is the main thesis of primatologist Frans De Waal, who in this short book based on his Tanner Lectures at Princeton, elaborates on what biologists have been hinting at since Darwin’s (1871) book The Descent of Man and Hamilton’s (1963) studies on...

In most given systems, there is an inherent structure where objects (nodes) interact with each other (through links or edges). Critical to understanding how little things can make a big difference in the formation of random networks is the concept of tipping points. In his national best-selling book ”The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference”, Malcolm Gladwell defines a tip...

1INTRODUCTIONIn his book, Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice, Gregg Caruso has provided an exceptionally well-argued, thorough original defence of a non-retributive approach to criminal justice, based on free will scepticism. The book is both great philosophical interest practical significance. Within the scope this commentary, I focus one aspect argument: epis...