There were two forms of nativism1 during the Tokugawa period. The first was literary in orientation. Literary nativists undertook exhaustive and comprehensive studies of Japan’s classical literature, and both poetry and prose works were central to their scholarship. An array of luminary intellects mostly from the eighteenth century made their mark on this form of nativism, including Keichū (164...

This paper claims that the “species dominance” issue will dominate our global politics later this century. Humanity will be bitterly divided over the question whether to build godlike, massively intelligent machines, called “artilects” (artificial intellects) which with 21 century technologies will have mental capacities trillions of trillions of times above the human level. Humanity will split...

and his equally talented sons who became leaders of the bar, the bench, and, in the case of William, the medical community of the whole Anglo-American world. Gidney and Millar write of the enduring Ontario professional ideal as the creation of "aristocrats of intellects". A relative once described the Osler boys as "English gentlemen with American energy". For once the reviewers' cliche is true...

intellect is a fundamental topic of concern in the peripatetic philosophy. a comparison of al-farabi’s approach to ‘intellect’ (an iranian muslim philosopher with an oriental background) with that of alexander of aphrodisias’ (a greek philosopher with an occidental background) may reveal the contrasting features of aristotelian peripatetic philosophy and the islamic philosophy. basing itself on...

in suhrawardi philosophy – like any philosophy which seeks to explain the general facts of being – the issuance of plurality is an important element in the cosmology and defers with mashsha basis in this regard. the issuance of plurality contains several stages in suhrawardi's main works: agreement with mashsha’ on the emanation of the first caused, criticizing them for the issuance of und...

human voyage to the world of ultra sense is a matter of discourses which was widely discussed between nations and the various schools of philosophy, language and many people including leaders of religions and thoughts branches confessed doing such voyages and left some literary reports of their mystical and dreamy travel. the oldest and newest of these reports are shown in this paper and them b...

the ideal theory is plato’s most important philosophical view involving his allegory of the cave. he tried much to explain this theory and present arguments in order to prove it. however, his views on the proof arguments and the concrete materials with ideals suffer from shortcomings. the present paper argues that the critiques of aristotle, avicenna, and allamah tabatabaee against this theory ...