The article is an evaluation of Pollock’s anti-existentialist argument and its place in the contemporary debates about Existentialism. We demonstrate that main objections to Anti-Existentialism can be grouped into two argumentative directions: (1) supposed confusion inner outer truth (Fine, Speaks); (2) assumption there such state affairs as Socrates’s not existing (Kroon). also introduce again...

this article will discuss and define the relationship between culture and politics in the view of imam khomeini (ra) the founder of the islamic republic of iran. examining imam khomeini’s thoughts, this relationship has been defined as fundamental based on the theory of two natures and also on the position of culture and politics. in this outlook, imam or leader primarily builds the cultural fo...

The Innovation Development of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories has developed a web portal for enterprise expert communities. It combines expert matching and communication functions to initiate and support domain specific online discussions. This paper describes the move from basic features of this corporate portal to a Web 2.0 instance using the results of a field trial and a usability evaluation....

This paper tackles the question of in which sense, if any, educational theory should be considered as ‘political’. From a pragmatist perspective it evaluates three meanings term: first, political an exception, such Rancière’s interruption existing order, and second, something that is always already given, Derrida’s concept iteration. Third, turns towards Rorty’s plea for understanding philosoph...

To construct a model in which competencies expected from female high school students are outlined, from among all experts in psychology, education, Islamic studies, and Islamic counseling working in Tehran high schools, 18 were  initially and purposefully selected and then interviewed extensively on the topic. The sampling and interviewing continued to the point of saturation. Content analyses ...

This study evaluated how individuals living on the Gulf Coast perceived hurricane risk after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It was hypothesized that hurricane outlook and optimistic bias for hurricane risk would be associated positively with distance from the Katrina-Rita landfall (more optimism at greater distance), controlling for historically based hurricane risk and county population density,...

This paper fortifies and defends the so called Sufficiency Argument (SA) against Classical Invariantism. In Sect. 2, I explain the version of the SA formulated but then rejected by Brown (2008a). In Sect. 3, I show how cases described by Hawthorne (2004), Brown (2008b), and Lackey (forthcoming) threaten to undermine one or the other of the SA’s least secure premises. In Sect. 4, I buttress one ...

Critical Review of the Current Approaches to Spiritual Education for Children with an Emphasis on Islamic Teachings M. Kiyaani M. Mehrmohammadi, Ph.D. A.R. Saadeghzaadeh Ghamsari, Ph.D. M. Nozari, Ph.D. A historical review of spiritual education for children reveals three main outlooks on the relationship between religion and spirituality upon which approaches to spiritua...