the “human mud” is one of the motifs of the poetry attributed to khayyam. the imagery, concepts and philosophical thoughts about the human being's origin (creation, death, life after death) form the essence of this poetry. are the khayyam's quatrains about creation original and new? or do they have a precedent in the ancient world poetry? why does the iranian literary criticism claim that this ...

the kernel of religion and religiousness« is a philosophical and theological issue that emerged in the west during renaissance. two theories of “religious experience” and “philosophia perennis” are very important in this realm. the kernel of religion, on the basis of the former, is an experience that causes the owner of it to be considered as a religious man, and the husk of religion consist of...

In the past few decades the West has witnessed an explosion of interest among psychologists, theologians, scientists, and philosophers alike in what Huxley (1970) has called philosophia perennis,the 'perennial philosophy', a universal doctrine as to the nature of man and reality lying at the very heart of every major metaphysical tradition, whether that of the Hindus, the Buddhists, the Amerind...

Ένα από τα κομβικά ζητήματα που απασχολούν τον φιλοσοφικό στοχασμό του Παπαϊωάννου είναι η εργαλειοποίηση Λόγου στη νεωτερική εποχή και απορρέουσα εξ αυτού συρρίκνωση της Ύπαρξης. Σε αυτό το πλαίσιο, όπου ο άνθρωπος αφενός δεν θεμελιώνει εξαρτά καμία βεβαιότητα κανέναν κανόνα ένα υπερβατικό ον, γκρεμίζονται οι θεολογικές βεβαιότητες χριστιανικού κόσμου, αλλά ταυτόχρονα μπορούν να επανεπινοηθούν...

this paper will examine how muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of divine unity (taw¤hīd), the quran, sunnah of the prophet muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the west in the twentieth century. the article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philos...

Zusammenfassung In der Rechtsextremismusforschung wird die Instrumentalisierung von Religionen zu Zwecken politischer Agitation ausführlich untersucht. Der Beitrag differenziert diese Perspektive, indem er nach Form und Funktion religiöser Deutungsmuster in rechten Krisennarrativen fragt. einem theoretischen Teil werden einer wissenssoziologischen Perspektive zunächst strukturelle Gemeinsamkeit...

BEFORE discussing the role and significance of comparative philosophy for the study of Islamic philosophy, it is necessary to define exactly what we mean by comparative philosophy, for only too often today facile comparisons are made between Oriental metaphysical doctrines of a sacred nature and secular modern philosophies without the least consideration for the basic difference in the nature o...

Interactions among plants have been hypothesized to be context dependent, shifting between facilitative and competitive in response to variation in physical and biological stresses. This hypothesis has been supported by studies of the importance of positive and negative interactions along abiotic stress gradients (e.g., salinity, desiccation), but few studies have tested how variation in biotic...