Love and its transformative power have long been at the center of Islamic Sufism. For Sufi writers profane love, perceived as the love of worldly beloved, was the first step on the path toward the union with the divine. Farid al-Din ‘Attar (1145-1221) was one of the most significant authors to espouse and articulate profane love as a representation of both earthly and heavenly love. 'Attar’s us...

1. introduction persian folktales and literary stories are full of love relationships which add to the structural richness of the story. in most of these stories, love commences on part of the male character. however, there are instances in which women or girls initiate love. these kinds of love create adventures which are admirable in themselves. the commencement of love and the way a lover es...

The paper analyzes the conception of shame British sentimentalist Francis Hutcheson. It rests on understanding moral virtue as a representation benevolence and iden­tification with misery from unfavorable opinions others. For Hutcheson, complements honour second part particular human capacity that linked to sense. In ‘An Inquiry into Original Our Ideas Beauty Virtue’, Hutch­eson is arguing Bern...

How do external stimuli and our internal state coalesce to create the distinctive aesthetic pleasures that give vibrance to human experience? Neuroaesthetics has so far focused on the neural correlates of observing beautiful stimuli compared to neutral or ugly stimuli, or on neural correlates of judging for beauty as opposed to other judgments. Our group questioned whether this approach is suff...

Being a Philosophy professor for eighteen years and then Big History three, I fell in love with long before History. But, similar to St. Augustine’s attribution of his relationship God, also say: ‘Late have loved thee, beauty so ancient yet new.’ This exciting affair is marriage that came along brought forth many splendid realizations. It introduced dimension existed from the very start but was...

The concept of beauty is closely linked to gender in contemporary society; in this study, the concept of beauty was explored by the use of phenomenological techniques. For this purpose, an in-depth semi-structured interview was conducted among 35 young female students in Tehran. the sample of study was chosen by theoretical sampling model and the interviews were continued up to the point of  ga...

The female body is more than an anatomical form; it has come to represent everything that a woman is. Beauty is both a woman’s being and her worth. In “Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source,” Susan Sontag explores the contradictions and consequences inherent in modern standards of beauty. According to Sontag, beauty’s association with women has caused the depreciation of women, just as women...

aim and background: considering to adverse consequences of infidelity on couples well-being and longevity of marital relationships, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between love schemas and justifications for extramarital involvement and affairs in married women. method and materials: this was a descriptive-correlation study and the samples included 250 married women who...

there are imaginative poets who have a look to nature and get astonished for their beauty and as if are observed for the first time.there are also some poets which are deeply inspired and get deeper insight by important factors of nature like color, sound and dynamism.dynamism is superior to the others. when poetic images are free of dynamism, they are deprived of beauty thus they are no more e...