Rationality and the issues associated with it have always occupied a central place within the Western philosophical tradition. Moreover, as the humanities and social sciences have found themselves under assault from post-modernists and deconstructionists, the role of rationality has also become a pressing problem well beyond the borders of philosophy. In this paper I am going to take issue with...

this paper is an attempt to criticize “universalism” and “rationality” that is engraved in the epistemological foundations of the social sciences in the modernity era. this attempt will help to reconstruct these foundations provide a better understanding of the processes of reasoning and production of knowledge by generations and gender. the concept of rationality with a universalistic approach...

One of materialism's and modernism's most serious flaws is their failure to take a holistic picture human life. Transcendental ideals are rejected by almost all modernist ideologists. To put it another way, there no objective, absolute standard for truth. Truth moral standards, on the other hand, only relative, with validity restricted time, location, situation. Modernists label societies found...

eorge Eliot’s legacy for modernism is worth considering on multiple grounds but especially in the context of religious belief and its influence on social morality. The comments of two early twentieth-century writers are suggestive of the mixed nature of her legacy. On the one hand, novelist Virginia Woolf (among the most strident critics of Victorian culture) famously said of Middle-march (1872...

In this article, I discuss the implications of postmodernism on religious thought, with special reference to Islamic thought. Firstly, nature and characteristics postmodernist thinking, different schools thought/’postmodernisms’ that fall under rubric. My contention is a response modernism rather than religion, although it has Secondly, examine compare points between post-modernism. then argue ...

The Party of Right, through its various activities, defined Croatian political history from the Party's beginnings in the 1860s to the end of the first World War; after 1918, a newly emergent geopolitical arena brought about by the demise of Austria-Hungary, the collapse of the Habsburg dynasty, and the predominance of Stjepan Radić's peasant ideology on the Croatian political scene relegated S...

If there is one agreement between theorists of modernity and those of post-modernity, it is about the centrality of consumption to modern capitalism and contemporary culture. To thinkers as different as Werner Sombart, Emile Durkheim and Thorstein Veblen at the turn of the twentieth century, consumption was a decisive force behind modern capitalism, its dynamism and social structure. More recen...

■ Abstract This review addresses methods and theories for the archaeological study of ancient state economies, from the earliest states through the Classical period and beyond. Research on this topic within anthropological archaeology has been held back by reliance on simple concepts and an impoverished notion of the extent of variation in ancient state economies. First I review a long-standing...

This publication is a part of cycle dedicated to revealing the reform potential Falsafa, hellenizing school Philosophical Theology in classical Islam, greatest representatives which were al-Farabi (d. 950), Ibn Sina (Avicenna; d. 1037) and Rushd (Averroes; 1198). A notable number concepts characteristic this (including those traditionally qualified as heterodox) turned out be demand by modernis...