Perfection has been used as a criteria to classify rearrangement scenarios since 2004. However, there is a fundamental bias towards extant species in the original definition: ancestral species are not bound to perfection. Here we develop a new theory of perfection that takes an egalitarian view of species, and we examine the fitness of this theory on several datasets. Supplementary Material is ...

this paper seeks to address the issue of alienation from the perspective of mulla sadra. although mulla sadra did not explicitly employed the term alienation, equivalent terms, such as self-forgetfulness, negligence and self-unconsciousness can be found in his works. the outcome of the study is that mulla sadra is pursuing excellence and perfection of human beings through transcendent philosoph...

in the mind, language and literature of all people, there are some significant numbers like three, thirty, six, nine, twelve, forty, one hundred and one thousand that are called numbers of perfection. sometimes one digit is added to these numbers (and the result is seven, thirteen, ten and one thousand and one) or is subtracted from them (and the result is five, ninety nine or eleven) and the o...

a portrait of the artist as a young man portrays stages of spiritual developments of a young artist. based on some mystical backgrounds, particularly aquinas’s mystical aesthetics, and referring to theosophists like bruno and saint augustine, joyce comes to a kind of mystical aesthetics of art. he, accordingly, depicts a young artist whose aesthetic attitude is mystical, encounters epiphany, an...

The concept of katechon (“that which withholds”), essential to both the theological tradition and modern political philosophy, originates in Second Thessalonians by Paul Apostle. This withholding force resists coming end times has often been identified with Roman Empire (and later Christian imperial state), latter seen as a protected space that enabled spread Good Tidings. mission containment, ...