Abstract Well-functioning modern democracies depend largely on expert knowledge and arrangements, but this expertise reliance also causes severe problems for their legitimacy. Somewhat surprisingly, moral political philosophers have come to play an increasing role as experts in contemporary policymaking. The paper discusses different epistemic democratic worries raised by the presence of philos...

The purpose of this manuscript is to present a reliable estimate in form of tables of the Muslim population and its percentage in each country in Africa. This data is summarized to be a reference for other studies and discussions related to Muslim population. The presented data show that about 27% of the population of Africa is Muslim, a total of about 446 million.

a very eminent degree, being highly accomplished in the mathematical and philosophical sciences, as well as in the theory and practice of architecture. He was born in 1632, and made great advances in mathematics at 16 years of age. Being an Oxford scholar, he was one of those learned men who first associated together there for their mutual im¬ provement in natural and experimental philosophy, a...

The teachings of Islam are closely related to the concept community. Islamic history and politics influence community structure organisation based on Quranic tenets. Due extremism some Muslim leaders who still caught in their own orthodoxy, Muslims have been lagging behind rest world terms political, economic social progress. This study examines philosophy ideas thinker Fazlur Rahman, a moderni...

This article was written with the aim of discussing integration between religion and philosophy in view Ibn Rusyd. In classical civilization there have been long debates struggles caused by differences opinion philosophers jurists. One side based their ideas on thinking intellect, while other argued revelation. Rusyd, a Muslim philosopher who very fond science, sought to integrate religion. Rus...

It is sometimes argued that possible worlds are too rich. Indeed, for every sentence φ and every world w, either φ is true at w, or ¬φ is true at w. Possible worlds leave nothing unsettled: for any question one may ask, there is always an answer, yes or no. My view goes along the opposite side. I take possible worlds to be incredibly poor, and I think that a good deal can be added to them. The ...

Gutoku Shinran 愚禿親鸞 (1173–1263) is one of Japan’s most creative and influential thinkers. He the (posthumous) founder what ultimately became Jōdo Shinshū, better known today as Shin Buddhism, widely practiced form Buddhism in Japan. Despite this, his work has not received global attention other historical Japanese philosophical figures such Kūkai 空海 (774–835) or Dōgen 道元 (1200–1253). The relati...