This research is an attempt to compare the views of Farabi and Ibn Sina on the question of happiness, which is discussed in two parts: the definition of happiness and its relation to the faculties of the soul. Farabi has suggested five definitions and Ibn Sina one definition for happiness. It will be shown that in some respects the definition of Ibn Sina and in some others those of Farabi are m...

The terms of (mass) communication research and media studies are widely used to refer to an academic discipline, usually established in universities as a major or minor subject, a department or institute and sometimes even a school or college. It is implied that this young field is by now a discipline in its own right alongside such traditional disciplines as history, literature, sociology or p...

A book with this title cannot but challenge comparison with Sargant"s "Battle for the Mind" and many readers must take it UP hoping that the author will provide as stimulating and profound aPproach as the latter, but in spiritual rather than psychiatric terms.

DISCUSSING PSYCHOANALYSTS, Ludwig Wittgenstein once quipped that "they have given up one way of thinking and adopted another." This diagnosis certainly applies to the authors of Irreducible Mind (henceforth IM), although reading through this 800-page volume makes it clear that they would take it as a compliment. The book is an ambitious work, as it explicitly purports to "justify and to some ex...

based on some important factors such as abstraction of imagination and also the power of soul on creation external imagery, molla sadra utters his claim about bodily resurrection and creation of eternal body by soul. and also he clarifies the way of creation and its quality. examining and understanding the dominant system on the world and resurrection, leads us to this point that in the world c...

The centerpiece of Aristotle's De anima is his account of the soul-body relationship in terms of form: the soul is "the form of a natural body that potentially has life" (I1 1,412a20-21). Recent evaluations of this doctrine have varied widely, from effusive to dismissive. Kathleen Wilkes parallels Aristotle's hylomorphism with "the most promising form" of contemporary functionalism; his theory,...