Pierre-Gerlier Forest and his colleagues make a strong argument for the need to expand policy capacity among healthcare actors. In this commentary, I develop an additional argument in support of Forest et al view. Forest et al rightly point to the need to have embedded policy experts to successfully translate healthcare reform policy into healthcare change. Translation of externally generated i...

According to the French Structuralist Gerard Genette, the term “point of view” is not an all-comprehensive one for the discussion of narration because, in his view, there is often a difference between the person who tells about an event and the person who sees it. He has, thus, proposed the term “focalization” to make a distinction between the two components of narration. Later critics also pro...

as one of the systematizing philosophers, kant holds some views on education and training in general and religious education in particular. the present article introduces his views on religious education with its necessity and scope. organized in four parts, this article attempts to study the theoretical foundotions of kant's view on religious education by exploring his works. in the first...

Theories of the meaning of life are divided into two categories: nihilistic and anti-nihilistic. The latter is divided, in turn, into the view that life is meaningful and the view that life can be made meaningful. In this paper, we deploy a descriptive-analytic method to discuss Jean-Paul Sartre’s view of nihilism. In his view, God does not exist, the human being is born and dies without a reas...

among muslim thinkers, mullasadra and ahsai are two important figures who have specific approach to the cognitive extents of the wisdom in understanding of the qur’an as a revealed text. one of the consecrate conditions of mullasadra view about ta’vil; is that from his point of view independent comprehension of qur’anic verses is permissible; but ahsai believes that ta’vil should not be contrad...