The main purpose of this article is to establish links between the teachings Hryhorii Skovoroda and leading trends in Western philosophy his time. Since anticipated influences, similarities parallels are mostly implicit, study identify common motives for thinking, rather than direct dependence. Nevertheless, biggest difficulty analysis that it not easy enroll a Ukrainian philosopher any modern ...

in this research, the methodology of which is descriptive-inferential, our problem is the role of the unity of divine acts in mulla sadra’s transcendent philosophy and the evaluation of his arguments on it. in this regard, after explaining the concept of “unity of divine acts”, we show that since the boundaries of sadra’s philosophical system approaches speculative mysticism, sadra’s system in ...

Prof. Dr. Nazla Ahmed al-Jubouri (1956) is an Iraqi researcher and academic. She a professor of philosophy, mysticism comparative thought. holds Ph.D. from the Department Philosophy at College Arts University Baghdad in 1992. joined academic staff House Wisdom (chief researcher) member several advisory teams for period 1997-2013. has many books research published outside Iraq, taught universiti...

Relevance. At the present stage of development religious studies, importance revealing psychological "slice" mysticism is increasing from point view comparing two approaches – reductionist, which reduces to intense and unusual experiences, anti-reductionist, sees in something more than just subjective experiences. The purpose supplement understanding limits reduction religious‒mystical experien...

there are different commentaries on rumi’s masnavi, each focusing on it from different pints of view such as literary aesthetics, mysticism, philosophy and subject matter. these various commentaries – including those by reynold nicholson, jafar shahidi, mohammad estelami and karim zamani – make their comparison and contrast inevitable. despite their great affinity, they are different from each ...

The article considers whether, and how, current scientific studies of consciousness might benefit from insights of mystical traditions. Although considerable effort has been expanded towards introducing mysticism into mainstream cognitive science, the topic is still controversial, not least because of the multifariousness of meaning associated with the term (from “illogical thinking” through “v...