Myth as source of knowledge in early western thought

Abstract: The presence of epistemology in western philosophy is very influential in life, especially in regulating the strategy of power or power to achieve goals. The style of western thought brought a big change in the knowledge of thinking, perspectives, and behavior that became the motors of civilization. Two main influential schools in the study of western philosophy such as rationalism and empiricism are conflicting. Both favor reason and five senses, but also inseparable from the weaknesses of each that will be revealed by researchers. Likewise the negative impact behind the superiority of western epistemology on the nature and development and existence of humans.

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On Purpose

10.23943/princeton/9780691195957.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Ruse

Keyword(s):

Intelligent Design ◽

Ancient Greece ◽

Western Thought ◽

History Of ◽

Historical Thought ◽

The Way

Can we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with it, and even Darwin, who profoundly shook the idea, was unable to kill it. Indeed, purpose seems to be making a comeback today, as both religious advocates of intelligent design and some prominent secular philosophers argue that any explanation of life without the idea of purpose is missing something essential. This book explores the history of purpose in philosophical, religious, scientific, and historical thought, from ancient Greece to the present. The book traces how Platonic, Aristotelian, and Kantian ideas of purpose continue to shape Western thought. Along the way, it also takes up tough questions about the purpose of life—and whether it's possible to have meaning without purpose.

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Marcuse and Habermas's Political Ideas in English

Tikrit Journal For Political Science ◽

10.25130/poltic.v0i14.121 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 215

Author(s):

Asaad Abdullwahab AbdulKarim ◽

Waleed Massaher Hamad ◽

Salah Ibrahim Hamadi

Keyword(s):

First Generation ◽

Second Generation ◽

Frankfurt School ◽

Western Thought ◽

Political Ideas ◽

Important Impact

Abstract The Frankfurt School is characterized by its critical nature and it is the result of the Marxist socialist thought as it contributed to the development of the German thought in particular and the Western thought in general through important ideas put forward by a number of pioneers in the various generations of the school and most notably through the leading pioneer in the first generation, Marcuse, and the leading pioneer of the second generation, Habermas, whose political ideas had an important impact on global thinking and later became the basis of the attic of many critical ideas. In spite of the belief of the school members in the idea of the criticism of power and community, each had his own ideas that distinguish him from the others.

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The Academic Study of Sufism at American Universities

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences ◽

10.35632/ajiss.v24i3.423 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 24-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Marcia Hermansen

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Current Situation ◽

Muslim World ◽

Western Thought ◽

Academic Institutions ◽

Academic Context ◽

American Universities ◽

Islamic Studies ◽

Academic Study

This article provides an overview of the history and current situation of the academic study of Sufism (Islamic mysticism) at American universities. It examines Sufism’s place within the broader curriculum of Islamic studies as well as some of the main themes and approaches employed by American scholars. In addition, it explains both the academic context in which Sufi studies are located and the role of contemporary positions in Islamic and western thought in shaping its academic study.1 Topics and issues of particular interest to a Muslim audience, as well as strictly academic observations, will be raised. In comparison to its role at academic institutions in the traditional Muslim world,2 Sufi studies has played a larger role within the western academic study of Islam during the twentieth century, especially the later decades. I will discuss the numerous reasons for this in the sections on the institutional, intellectual, and pedagogical contexts.

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A Comparative Study on the Acceptance of Western Thought and Transformation of Buddhist belief System in Asia: Focused on the Formation of Protestant Buddhism in Sri Lanka

Journal of South Asian Studies ◽

10.21587/jsas.2010.16.1.001 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 1-26

Author(s):

kim chin young

Keyword(s):

Sri Lanka ◽

Comparative Study ◽

Belief System ◽

Western Thought

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What Is Jewish Philosophy?

10.1093/oso/9780199580903.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

T. M. Rudavsky

Keyword(s):

Moral Theory ◽

Western Thought ◽

Christian Philosophy ◽

Faith And Reason ◽

The World ◽

Jewish Philosophy ◽

Medieval Jewish Philosophy ◽

The Relationship

Medieval Jewish philosophy, like Islamic and Christian philosophy, is fundamentally focused on the relationship between “faith and reason.” Arising as an effort toward harmonizing the tenets of Judaism with current philosophic teachings, medieval Jewish philosophy deals with problems in which there appears to be a conflict between philosophical speculation and acceptance of dogmas of the Judaic faith. This chapter reviews the nature of Jewish philosophy as well as the tension between Judaism and Science. It positions Jewish philosophy within the broader context of Western thought, and distinguishes philosophy from the world of the Rabbis. It then provides an overview of the major themes of the work, which include issues of omniscience, providence, reason, and moral theory.

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