abu zeyd balkhi, the iranian muslim scholar, theologian and philosopher, who lived in third and fourth hijri centuries, is the first scientist who studied the interplay between the mental hygiene or health and the body hygiene or health. he reported his findings and opinions in his book “masalih al-abdan va al-anfos”. balkhi has attributed the orders of creation and universe to the wisdom of go...

The article is devoted to the story Schizophrenic Gospel by Bohumil Hrabal and a little-known interpretation of this prose bythe famous Polish philosopher theologian Józef Tischner. Plato, Hegel, Berkeley, Heidegger: these four names in Tischner‘s work lead Hrabal‘s thinking his gospel. discusses detail specific perception reality which according him transformed into phenomenon or image prose, ...

The article concerns the relevance of issue genre heredity between literature and cinema. cinematography actively turned to biography even in first decades its development, era silents. It did not disappear from view cinematographers throughout 20th century. Recently, this has been activated both cinema on television, which increased interest researchers. Hence, receptive problematics Ukrainian...

fakhr al-dīn al-rāzī, theologian and philosopher of the 12th centuriy (1148-1209), has a huge literary production in many scholary disciplines of his time. nothwithstanding some original ideas which are mostly found in his theological and philosophical writings, most of his other works are compilations based on other sources. some of these sources still exist, while most of the others seem to h...

centuries (C.B. Schmitt); science in the early Royal Society (M.D. Hall); science and religion in the seventeenth century (P.M. Rattansi); the growth of Netherlands science in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries (W. D. Hackmann); the rise and fall of Scottish science (J. R. R. Christie); scientific careers in eighteenth-century France (R. Hahn); the development of a professional care...

as one of the most unfathomable mysteries human beings encounter with, death has always been one of the main concerns of great scholars and one of the major teachings of monotheistic religions. augustine is one of the great scholars who reflect upon and talk about death. interestingly, we do not face with a particular definition of death in augustine’s works. as a platonic philosopher, he consi...

Reconstructing the past and anticipating the future, i.e., the ability of travelling in mental time, is thought to be at the heart of consciousness and, by the same token, at the center of human cognition. This extraordinary mental activity is possible thanks to the ability of being aware of 'subjective time'. In the present study, we attempt to trace back the first recorded reflections on the ...

Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption raises a vital question: how is mixture, or what we would now call chemical combination, possible. It also offers an outline of a solution to the problem and a set of criteria that a successful solution must meet. Understanding Aristotle’s solution and developing a viable peripatetic theory of chemical combination has been a source of controversy over th...

There has been a small revival of natural law thinking in Protestant churches and theology since 1990. This article poses the question what kind ethics German American theologian, philosopher ethicist Paul Tillich espoused. More specifically theory did he hold? The methodological hermeneutical key is based on reading thoroughly from Tillich’s work, e.g. Morality Beyond; Love, Power Justi...