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The present study reconstructs psychological, linguistic and ontological aspects of Mullā Ṣadrā’s philosophy in the light of Brentano’s theory of intentionality. Brentano used intentionality as a psychological term to denote the ‘mental’ as opposed to the ‘natural’. Later, with …

Today, the concepts "toleration" and "pluralism" are generally taken to be synonymous. Yet Baruch Spinoza's rationalist political philosophy outlined a conception of positive liberty, as well as a robust doctrine of toleration, which grew out of a monistic metaphysics instead. E…

The American Protestant and Evangelical church has primarily ascribed to a dualistic view of humanity (soul and body as two separate entities) leading to understanding spiritual formation as a cultivation of a non-physical soul through practices that are primarily internal, indi…