‏‎‏‎utopia has, for four centuries, accompanied that hope of progress and that striving for betterment. it now straggles against a widespread sense that this has been an illusion, or an impossible dream. the utopian idea can never entirely disappear, but utopia as a form of the social imagination has clearly weakened. if it cannot instill its vision in the public consciousness, the consequences...

The phenomenon of fiscal illusion has always been an intriguing topic in the public finance literature. Fiscal illusion is a concept in which misinterpretation of fiscal parameters and tax expenses and liabilities lead to bias in budgetary decision making at all levels of the government. The current research presents an empirical analysis of the fiscal illusion in the Iranian economy, using fiv...

in this research the focus of the researcher is on the influence of american myths that have long been held and offered by the american culture and ideologies. sam shepard is conceived to be one of the greatest playwrights of the contemporary american theater. in his works he depicts broken characters who are struggling to keep up with the national expectations but are ceaselessly borne back to...

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

This study intends to analyze scientific and ethical perfection from the viewpoint of Tusi. In analyzing perfectionism, we begin with analysis of the concept of perfection. Dimensions of human perfection (scientific and ethical ones), stating the degrees of human perfection and practical procedure and process of human perfection from Tusi’s viewpoint are other issues discussed in this paper. Di...

Although there is no disagreement about desirability of perfection, there are disagreements about the whatness of the discussion of human’s ultimate perfection. Accordingly, the whatness of the ultimate perfection is very important. At first, the paper deals with literal and idiomatic meanings of perfection, the first perfection, and the second perfection. Then, the differences between them hav...

According to Islamic teachings, arrogance is one of the main moral diseases, a plague for the health of the heart and an obstacle to achieving perfection and reaching heaven. Due to the importance and necessity of “moral health”, the present study, using its descriptive-analytical method and based on the verses and hadiths, seeks to find the root cause of arrogance disease in order to provide t...