Recent research has shown that religious individuals are much more resistant to utilitarian modes of thinking than their less religious counterparts, but the reason for this is not clear. We propose that a meta-ethical belief that morality is rooted in inviolable divine commands (i.e., endorsement of Divine Command Theory) may help explain this finding. We present a novel 20-item scale measurin...

this article is an investigation into the nature of the sufi metaphysics of gadr ad-dìn qinawì and his followers. in contrast to previous scholars, who have considered qinawì to be dismissive of philosophy in a way similar to ghazålì, the author shows that in fact philosophical metaphysics, and in particular the formulations of ibn sìnå, had a great impact on qinawì and his followers in the sch...

What role does the notion of the divine play in Aristotle’s account of a good life? This is not an obvious question; god appears relatively infrequently, for example, in the Nicomachean Ethics. But it might interest us, if only because of the perplexing appearance of the divine in Book 10 of that treatise, as that which appears to underwrite the choice of a contemplative life. The cognate quest...

Abstract Does God trust human persons? Very little in philosophy of religion has been written about God's trust, which seems striking for two joint considerations. First, many the Abrahamic faith traditions posit that union and close personal relationship with is telos life. Second, to be an essential element ideal, relationships between persons. While there much literature emphasizes role on s...

since the word “treasuries” has been mentioned in the koran and hadiths, scholars of the interpretation of the koran and hadiths as well as theologians, philosophers and gnostics have discussed it from several aspects. in this paper, we first interpret it literally, formulating the scholars’ opinions about it; then, we develop the discussion to the “key of treasury” and “treasurers”; finally,  ...

The article is a study of the late scholastic concept natural theology based on works Fr. Suárez, Metaphysical Disputations (1597) and De Deo Uno et Trino (1607), as well analysis treatise “divine knowledge” demonstration its significance in structure Suárez’s theology. First, explicates highest most noble part metaphysical science, since Suárez differs both from supernatural or revelation theo...

divine essence and explanation of his ontological place is an important problem for religious schools in conceptual and direct knowledge and both the philosophers and mystics concerns about it. mystics believed the method of intuition, but afterwards the emergence of speculative mysticism, they try to translate the intellectual intuition to conceptual knowledge, attaining this purpose, they use...