Volume 15 (2024)
Volume 14 (2023)
Volume 13 (2022)
Volume 12 (2021)
Volume 11 (2020)
Volume 10 (2019)
Volume 9 (2018)
Volume 8 (2017)
Volume 7 (2016)
Volume 6 (2015)
Volume 5 (2015)
Volume 4 (2013)
Volume 3 (2012)
Volume 2 (2012)
Volume 1 (2010)

A Critique of Leo Strauss’ Political Thought

Naser Tajik

Volume 1, Issue 1 , September 2010, , Pages 1-23

Abstract
  This article has been arranged to discuss Leo Strauss’ hermeneutical principles and their impacts on his political thought as well as his reading of Plato in two parts: 1. Strauss’ hermeneutics; and 2. Strauss’ political view. His believes that philosophers have introduced their teachings ...  Read More

Moral Message of Richard Rorty's Philosophy

Muhammad Asghari

Volume 1, Issue 2 , March 2011, , Pages 1-14

Abstract
  The present article tries to show that Rorty's philosophy has some moral message. To do so, we have to look at the contents of some of his books and in particular After Philosophy and The Mirror of Nature. The above-mentioned moral message may be, implicitly or explicitly, seen in his neo-pragmatist ...  Read More

Rereading Critical Ideas Concerning and Crises of Democracy

Jalal Hajizade

Volume 2, Issue 1 , September 2011, , Pages 1-24

Abstract
  Though democracy enjoys such a lofty status in the contemporary world that many people think of it as a certain and evident thing, theory of democracy and its standards have been faced by challenging critiques. The main origin of critical approach towards democracy should be sought for in the ancient ...  Read More

An Analytical Attitude to Concepts of ‘Progress’ and ‘Break Down’ in Kuhn’s Scientific Revolutions

Mohamad Mehdi Hatami; Seyyed Mohsen Azizi; Mehdi Dehbashi

Volume 2, Issue 2 , January 2012, , Pages 1-22

Abstract
  The final end of this paper is to analyze the concepts of “progress” and “break down” in scientific revolutions and show the existing paradoxes in kuhn’s works about them. We firstly show that some thinkers has assumed human progress, in philosophy of history, the logic ...  Read More

The Enemies of Republic On the Poet’s Position in Plato’s Utopia

alireza esmaeelzade

Volume 3, Issue 1 , September 2012, , Pages 1-18

Abstract
  The end of this article is to analyze Plato’s view about poem and poets with regardto Republic. Here we try to give as possible as a consistent and homogeneousinterpretation of Plato’s thought.According to the most commentator’s tradition-that with regard to the content often books ...  Read More

Communitarianism and Critic of Individualism and Liberal State’s Neutrality

Mohammad Abolfathi; Mokhtar Noori

Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2013, , Pages 1-13

Abstract
  Communitarianism is one of the most important critics of political liberalism. Communitarianism has raised a number of questions, especially about individualism and state’s neutrality in political and social issues. Therefore, this article tries briefly to study this approach. The findings show ...  Read More

A Survey on Spinozan Concepts in Hegel''s Phenomenology of Spirit

Mohammad Mahdi Ardebili; Yousef Nozohour

Volume 4, Issue 1 , November 2013, , Pages 1-21

Abstract
  Commentators have hitherto analyzed the interrelation between Spinozan and Hegelian concepts, especially in works where Hegel directly mentions Spinoza (such as Logic and The Lectures on History of Philosophy). The present inquiry, however, is an attempt to undertake the harder task of studying Spinozan ...  Read More

Marcel’s Creative Fidelity: A Way to Change the Modern Word

Maryam Ahmadi Kafshani; Ahmad Ali Heydari

Volume 4, Issue 2 , May 2014, , Pages 1-21

Abstract
  If observable behaviors represent the thoughts that are behind them, it is evident that every attempt to reform them depends on a change in the viewpoint. By accepting this hypothesis, solving personal and social issues of modern societies needs reconsideration of the viewpoint that is the infrastructure ...  Read More

An Analysis of Heidegger’s Approach to Technology

Khashayar Boroomand; Seyed Hassan Hosseini

Volume 5, Issue 1 , January 2015, , Pages 1-22

Abstract
  Heidegger's views on technology have had a great influence on contemporary philosophy of technology in both continental and analytic traditions. In this essay, the essence of modern technology and its relation to the history of Being, Ge-stell, and the danger of its domination, and Heidegger's approach ...  Read More

Sub Specie Aetenitatis Viewing; Early Wittgenstein’s Perspective on Aesthetics

Mojtaba Etemadinia

Volume 5, Issue 2 , July 2015, , Pages 1-20

Abstract
  In the early Wittgenstein’s aesthetic perspective, aesthetics is a way of ‘expressing’ the mystical, and the factuality of facts. Accordingly, a work of art is an object seen from sub specie aetenitutis. Sub specie aetenitutis viewing means seeing the world as a finite whole. When we ...  Read More

Freedom and Religiosity from Michel Foucault’s Perspective;Focusing on his Writings on Islamic Revolution of Iran

Fatemeh Tofighi

Volume 6, Issue 1 , November 2015, , Pages 1-13

Abstract
  One of the main questions that has preoccupied Foucault scholars is that whether his views on power provide some possibilities for agency and revolution. These scholars also have debated whether his stance toward Iranian revolution can in any way be compatible with his theories on power and freedom. ...  Read More

Body, subject and technology of Self : Lessons from Foucault's solutions for today's society

Mohammad Ali Tvana; Mahmoud Alipour

Volume 6, Issue 2 , June 2016, , Pages 1-21

Abstract
  One of the questions raised in recent political philosophy is relation  Between power, subject and body, This is that power how constitutes the subject and it body. Michel Foucault is a great thinker that to answer these questions, not only explores the Genea of the modern subject, But also He speaks ...  Read More

Critique of Guyer’s Understanding on Kant’s Idealism

Mazdak Rajabi

Volume 7, Issue 1 , September 2016, , Pages 1-11

Abstract
  In this paper I try to refute Guyer’s reading of Kant’s refutation of idealism in a way in which I defend Kant’s idealism which has been denied by Guyer. By the notion of idealism according to Kant’s philosophy I mean we are not allowed to use space referring to thing in itself, ...  Read More

Responsibility against death of the other: foundation of subject in philosophy of levinas

mehdi khabbazi; safa sebti

Volume 7, Issue 2 , April 2017, , Pages 1-21

Abstract
  Concept of the other in philosophy of Levinas gives identity to his other concept. He criticizes the epistemology and ontology, at the same time questions the integrity of the subject and the universality of other. According to Levinas the other is possibility to deny the totality of the subject and ...  Read More

The Relation between reason and faith in Summa Theologiae

mazdak rajabi

Volume 8, Issue 1 , November 2017, , Pages 1-11

Abstract
  I will try to show how Thomas Aquinas, via distinction of natural theology from divine revelation, has provided a fundamental basis for the originality of realm of reason, viz. Philosophy and natural sciences instead of realm of faith; and this is the beginning of the modern world. This approach to understanding ...  Read More

Comment and practice at the beginning of philosophy

seyyed nematollah abdorrahimzadeh

Volume 8, Issue 2 , March 2018, , Pages 1-27

Abstract
  According to Aristotelian tradition, Thales is known as the first philosopher, but in ancient Greece, he was called a wise man or sophos. Sophos and Sophia, meaning wisdom, at that time implied two aspects of thought and action so that Thales was mentioned in the list of the seven ancient sages that ...  Read More

Existential solitude in the modern world and its way of dealing with Ervin Yalom

Mahsa amiri; amir abbas alizamani

Volume 9, Issue 1 , December 2018, , Pages 1-22

Abstract
      In contemporary existentialism, there are four endearing concerns or anxieties that cause human anxiety. These worries are freedom, emptiness, death and loneliness. A person is looking for the security of the childhood of these worries. In this philosophical and literary school, ...  Read More

The Relation between Descartes "bête machine" theory and modern Environmental Behaviors

Mahdi Behniafar

Volume 9, Issue 2 , June 2019, , Pages 1-23

Abstract
  This paper is a study and the philosophical critique of the concept of "bête machine" theory with the human environmental behaviors in Modern ages, and our question is what precisely does Cartesian mean the modern and contemporary man's behaviors with animals and the environment? We have first ...  Read More

Western representation in the political discourse of Ali Shariati

mahsa adibi; Majid Tavassoli Roknabadi; Seyed Mohammad Ali Taghavi

Volume 10, Issue 1 , November 2019, , Pages 1-18

https://doi.org/10.30465/os.2019.4244

Abstract
  The way of dealing with the West is one of the main components of Iran's thought space, and the outbreak of the Islamic Revolution of Iran is also a product of this concern. In the form of Western-critique paradigm, Shariati tried to create new meanings and themes derived from traditional, religious, ...  Read More

Partners of Gadamer’s dialogue: Persons or/and things?

hamideh izadinia; Hasan Fathi

Volume 10, Issue 2 , April 2020, , Pages 1-18

https://doi.org/10.30465/os.2020.4966

Abstract
  Gadamer, like Plato, considers “dialogue” as the basis of the knowledge; that is, we know things around us through the dialogue. It is clear that, dialogue needs, at least, two partners. In Plato, at least at first glance, it seems that the partners in dialogue are two persons. Is that so ...  Read More

'Cultural Pluralism' in the light of Herder's Philosophy of Culture

Mohammad Mehdi Ardebili

Volume 11, Issue 21 , September 2020, , Pages 1-18

https://doi.org/10.30465/os.2020.29669.1627

Abstract
  Although “Philosophy of Culture” is commonly taken to refer to a rather new and interdisciplinary branch that has been developed in Germany since late twentieth century, one can trace the first philosophical ideas about culture, in the modern sense of the term, back to Johann Gottfried von ...  Read More

Fichte's doctrine of knowledge, as an extension of Kant's philosophy of ethics and the French Revolution

Mohsen Bagherzadeh meskibaf

Volume 11, Issue 2 , April 2021, , Pages 1-20

https://doi.org/10.30465/os.2021.37207.1745

Abstract
  In developing his Foundations of the Science of Knowledge, Fichte draws on two theoretical elements, the meaning of autonomy in Kant's thought, and a practical element, the French Revolution. In this regard, by completing Kant's autonomy (using the experience of the French Revolution), it enables it ...  Read More

Descartes' Provisional Ethics and Postmodern Ethics of Nietzsche and Foucault; Intertextual reading

Alireza Aram; Atefeh Mirfatemi

Volume 12, Issue 1 , September 2021, , Pages 1-18

https://doi.org/10.30465/os.2022.40398.1810

Abstract
  Descartes, in his epistemological inquiry process, known as grammatical doubt, has chosen a kind of behavioral discipline with a provisional state. In this type of moral advice, living on the basis of common and relatively simple principles is promoted without the need for a previous philosophical basis, ...  Read More

Anthropocentric in the Transition from Modern Philosophy to Phenomenology

farhad Barandak; Fereidoun babaei Aghdam; Hassan Mahmoudzadeh

Volume 12, Issue 2 , March 2022, , Pages 1-24

https://doi.org/10.30465/os.2022.40289.1808

Abstract
  The present study deals with the matter of human recognition (specifically anthropocentric). Here we examine the term anthropocentric in the transition from modern philosophy to phenomenology. Our attempt here is to do this with a qualitative analysis of the works and first-hand texts of modern philosophical ...  Read More

A review and critique of the theory of state in the political thought of Kant and Fichte

Mohsen Bagherzadeh meskibaf; mostafa abedi jige

Volume 13, Issue 1 , June 2022, , Pages 1-25

https://doi.org/10.30465/os.2022.39302.1790

Abstract
  In terms of strategic foundations, the theory of government in the political philosophy of Kant and Fichte have much in common. For this reason, it is not only possible to examine these two political theories in one article, but it also helps to make a more accurate comparison and thus a better understanding ...  Read More