this research examines dynamics and change in the iranian family during the recent half- century especially subsequent to the islamic revolution in 1979. developmental positions and changes are discussed and consideration is given to the extent to which family dynamics and change have been influenced by structural changes or ideational forces. we will focus on ideational forces based on a new a...

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 ...

Abstract In this discussion I argue that Peter Sullivan is wrong to suggest Wittgenstein's position in the Philosophical Investigations involves a commitment transcendental idealism. show Sullivan's interpretation holding idealism was employed by Wittgenstein attempt combat Platonist mythology. show, through detailed appraisal of samples, approach Platonism does not involve any such employment ...

Today, the frequency and the rate of success resulting from advances in medicine have made organ transplantations an everyday occurrence. Still, organ transplantations and donations modify the subjective experience of human beings as regards the image they have of themselves, of body, of life and of death. If the concern of the quality of life and the survival of the patients is a completely hu...

Many scientists have until recently considered consciousness to be unsuitable for scientific research. As Damasio remarks, ‘studying consciousness was simply not the thing to do before you made tenure, and even after you did it was looked upon with suspicion’ (Damasio, 1999, p. 7). Prompted by technological developments as well as conceptual changes, this attitude has changed within the last de...

T his is a useful, clearly written study of the philosophical origins of Menger's theorizing in economics . As the author points out in his conclusion: philosophy has been an accompanying presence at every stage in the development of Austrian economics. Moreover, "Action, that leitmotif of praxeology, has in the Austrian tradition received a distinctly Aristotelian analysis. Austrian economics ...