Philosophy
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Derrida’s Notion of Metaphysics and of Postmetaphysical Philosophyzing
One can make sense of the overall context of 20th century including Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Derrida with the help of adopting a notion on which all of these philosophers agree to have taken as their subject matter of inquiry; namely, overcoming of the traditional Western metaphysics. Although three of them adopt distinct paths for doing…
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NOTES ON MARX AND HEGEL
HEGEL AND MARX The relation of Marx to Hegel has been an intensely debated issue especially starting from the development of Western Tradition of Marxism, in which the philosophical debates concerning methodology is one of the core problems of the overall tradition. Among the theoreticians of Western Marxism, Lukacs is probably the first philosopher…
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Nietzschean Creation of Moral Values and Its Relevance to His Vitalist Philosophy
The significance of Thus Spoke Zarathustra in terms of Nietzsche’s moral philosophy‒ignoring whether we are allowed to introduce his overall accounts regarding and seemingly focusing on moral values under the unified title of “his moral philosophy” or not‒is that along with the journey of Zarathustra, Nietzsche actually attempts to provide one with the qualifications of…
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The Priority Arguments of Aristotle Regarding Actuality over Potentiality
Aristotle, upon introducing the wisdom as “knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes[1]” and the Metaphysics, or the First Philosophy as he names it, as “a kind of a science whose remit is being qua being and the things pertaining to that which is per se[2]”, commits himself to the study of substance.…
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Averroes on “Mind”
Averroes (1126-1198), known as the “Commentator” in Islamic philosophy and as the most extremist Aristotelian in the Islamic world, provides us with detailed comments on Aristotle’s work, De Anima (On the Soul), in his book Long Commentary on the Soul. The parts where he focuses on the Third Book of De Anima; he, rather than…
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