Department of Philosophy and Logic (2012 - Present)
Philosophy
Philosophy, Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Western Philosophy
Philosophy, Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Philosophy
Philosophy, Tehran, Tehran, Iran
In the criminal jurisprudence, It is kind of an established and generally accepted maxim that we must never punish anyone for his mere thought (or thoughts) including his feelings, desires, fantasies, wishes, beliefs, and unexecuted intentions. Generally It seems that there are more or less convincing reasons that we must avoid punishing mere thought due to its unacceptable and undesirable consequences for both the individual and the society. In this paper, however, I will investigate into some discussions about the justification related to the maxim that any criminalization of mere thought is intrinsically (i.e., consequentially-independent) morally unjust and hence is culpably wrong. My investigation is here mostly confined to one kind of
Despite many differences between Kant’s work and Nietzsche’s, there are some very interesting similarities between their prefaces to their two main books: Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and Kant’s Critique of Pure reason. In these prefaces, they both present critiques of dogmatism and metaphysics and hope for a philosophy of future which is far away from dogmatism. For Kant, it is still a critical metaphysics which he himself has built its foundation in Critique of Pure Reason, while for Nietzsche it still needs much work to emerge. In the current study, it is tried to explain these themes in three parts. My introduction paves the way for showing the similarities. The second part indicates what Kant and Nietzsche exactly mean by d
Aristotle presents his doctrine of prime matter in order to give an explanation for change and especially for generation and corruption. Hence, no surprise, the place to look for the origin of this doctrine is nowhere but Aristotle’s science of nature. The first three sections of this article examine the Aristotle’s explanation of this doctrine according to his teachings in the works concerning the science of nature and show that why Aristotle introduces such a thing as prime matter into his science of nature and what he does mean by that. Then, in the last section, I will show that Aristotle’s explanation of prime matter as the ultimate substratum of all things, at least as far as these works are concerned, is not plausible and witho
Moral psychology is an important part of ethics. Some of the recent interpreters of Nietzsche’s philosophy have tried to elaborate a Nietzschean naturalistic moral psychology based on his remarks and pose it against other positions in moral psychology, especially the Kantian one with its fundamental claim that third-person accounts of moral psychology have no bearing on a morality which purportedly guides us from the first-person perspective. Two of the main related constituents of Kant’s moral psychology are the concepts of will and deliberation, which in this paper I will try to show how, according to these recent interpreters, Nietzsche explains them entirely in terms of a system of desires, without any appeal to a separate will. If
The question of “what is happiness?” is among the most important questions of Greek philosophy. In those early works of Plato that very likely represent the views of Socrates, Socrates mainly focuses on moral issues and tries to get close to an explanation of the nature of virtue (or virtues), the happy life and the relation between virtue (or virtues) and the realization of happiness (Eudemonia). Given the Principle of Eudemonism, in this paper it is tried to examine Socrates’ views on the relation between virtue and happiness and defend what is known as the “Principle of the Sovereignty of Virtue”.
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