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...

turkish words in the texts of persian language and literature show the deep and long relations between two languages. and because the diwan-e-hafiz (hafiz’s complete works), in which the persian lyric poetry achieves its most flourishing perfection, is not an exception, some of its 35 turkish words are going to be surveyed to determine their morphophonemic in this paper. hoping to be considered...

the basic aim of this research is description and deduction of principles, aims, and methods based on the epistemological foundations of farabi in fusus al-hikmah. to get this aim, the method was documentary analysis and deduction. findings show that: necessary being is aware of all contingent beings, there is a unity between the essence of god as a ultimate truth and his knowledge, necessary b...

Abstract : Najmoddin Razi was the well-known mystics in the late 6th century and beginning of 7th century (AH). He has authored so many works in the field of Islamic mysticism. In his most significant work, Mersadolebad, he pointed out the beginning and end of the universe, the start of deportment and the extremity of development as well as the destination and goals of lover and beloved. In Raz...

in aristotle’s view, the explanation of an object or an issue is carried out according to the real form or reasonable essence and the utmost objective (ghāyat) it has and the goal it achieves. for instance, why do objects fall? according to aristotle and his followers, motion is explained as per the innate tendency of anything seeking to return to its natural resting place. the resting place or...