abstract in the second half of the nineteenth century, visual art distances itself from mimetic realism and relies upon art form, or from another perspective, on the abstracted form of concrete and tangible world and thus paves the way for the emergence of modern abstract painting. abstraction in art can be examined critically by various methods and styles. this happens due to the fact that in ...

similar to other domains of inquiry and knowledge, social sciences are influenced by various philosophical views and different axioms about the creation and humanity. given that in social sciences human being is both the object and subject of inquiry and is the focal point of analysis, anthropological foundations become especially relevant for these sciences. considering that motahhari and kant...

in shiite school, imamate is one of the self-evident doctrinal principles, which is on the same level as prophethood. during the history of shiism, many thinkers and intellectuals have considered this principle in philosophical and theological terms. they have comprehensively elaborated on the characteristics of those, who hold this position. thus, the transcendental theosophy, as one of the ma...

hojatt-ol hagh hakim abolfath-e omar ibn-e ebrahim known as khayyam or khayyami, was a philosopher, mathematician, astrologer, and poet of late fifth-early sixth century a.d. for long he was famous for his scientific features, however, later on his stanzas, were introduced to the world, the west in particular, through the translations provided by the nineteenth century british poet fitzgerald. ...

stylistics is one of the literary topics that the literati and writers have had a special attention to it during the past decade. literary style is a method or a special way of expressing thoughts that the writer or the narrator tries to transfer his ideas and thoughts about the realities through selecting words, terms and specific interpretations. amir-al-moemenin has expressed his intended mo...

the two discourses with a focus on reza davari ardekani and abdolkarim soroush, were formed in iran’s society. soroush’s discourse, with religious interests influenced by islamic sources, poper’s philosophy of science, logic and epistemological accuracies of analytical philosophy and consciously liberalism, is looking for compatibility with modernity. the second discourse on reza davari ardakan...

Ian McWhinney conceptualized and described the philosophical foundation of family medicine in a way that family doctors never fail to recognize.1 At the core of Dr McWhinney’s vision was the belief that the family physician was medicine’s consummate generalist. From the opening paragraphs of A Textbook of Family Medicine2 to early work in the peer-reviewed literature,3-5 the generalist theme is...