This book aims to introduce the Armenian version of Philo's writings also to those scholars not acquainted with Armenian Studies. The subject is approached from different perspectives - historical, hermeneutical, philological, linguistic - with special attention given to the rec…
Equanimity, good health, peace of mind, and long life are the goals of the ancient Taoist tradition known as "internal alchemy," of which Cultivating Stillness is a key text. Written between the second and fifth centuries, the book is attributed to T'ai Shang Lao-chun-the legend…
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Examines one of the most exciting and dynamic periods in the development of medieval Islam, from the late 9th to the early 11th century, through the thought of five of its principal thinkers, prime among them al-Farabi. This great Islamic philosopher, called 'the Second Master' …
Since the earliest period of Islamic history, Arab thought and reason has been dominated by a reverence for tradition and textual analysis. In this groundbreaking work, the great contemporary Arab philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri seeks to chart a course towards modernity via t…
The topic tackled in this book is Philo's account of the complex, double-sided nature of God's acting - the two-sided coin of God as transcendent yet immanent, unknowable yet revealed, immobile yet creating - and also the two sides of acting in humans - who, in an attempt to imi…
Peripatetic philosophy is taken to mean the work of Alfarabi and Avicenna, with significant contributions from Ghazali and Averroes and this work is brought into contrast with the dualities of modern rationalism (p. 3).
Mit den Ersten Analytiken macht Aristoteles erstmalig in der europäischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte das logisch zwingende Argumentieren zum Gegenstand einer systematischen Untersuchung. Dabei gewinnt er im ersten Buch der aus zwei Büchern bestehenden Schrift wichtige Einsichten in…
This book, by one of the most prominent interpreters of Leo Strauss's thought, was the first to address the problem that Leo Strauss himself said was the theme of his studies: the theologico-political problem or the confrontation with the theological and the political alternativ…
Nyana is the most rational and logical of all the classical Indian philosophical systems. In the study of Nyana philosophy, Karikavali with its commentary Muktavali, both by Visvanatha Nyayapancanana, with the commentaries Dinakari and Ramarudri, have been of decisive significan…
Over the last thirty-five years, Ken Wilber has developed an Integral "theory of everything" that makes sense of how all the world's knowledge systems'East and West; ancient, modern, and postmodern'fit together and can elevate our awareness. Drawing on science, psychology, human…
by Afnan, Soheil M., (Soheil Muhsin)
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