Soul : : A Comparative Approach / / Christian Kanzian, Muhammad Legenhausen.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Kanzian, Christian,; Legenhausen, Muhammad,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
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The leading idea of the book is to focus on the common roots of Islamic and Western traditions and to increase awareness of the chances of systematic philosophical dispute, with the aim to promote a substantial dialogue on an academic level. Most of the collected papers in this edition are results of contributions to a workshop, organized by the editors of the volume, as an integrated part of a visit to the Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute (IKERI) of Qom by a delegation of philosophers from the University of Innsbruck in May 2008. The organizational frame of the workshop and also of this edition is the partnership between the IKERI and the University of Innsbruck-the first formal high-level academic partnership between an Iranian Institution and a European University. The contributions in this edition investigate the topic "Soul" in an interdisciplinary and comparative way: Psychologists, Philosophers, and Theologians from both, Islamic and Western traditions, should be brought into dialogue with the focus on the general theme.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface of the Editors / Kanzian, Christian / Legenhausen, Muhammad -- Welcoming Remarks: On the Value of Science in Islam / Rajabī, Maḥmūd -- Knowledge of the Soul as Path / Javadi Amuli, 'Abdullah -- Self-Knowledge and the Soul / Fanaei Eshkevari, Mohammad -- Substantial Motion and Islamic Theology / Riḍā Fayāḍī, Ghulām -- Is Hylomorphism a Neglected Option in Philosophy of Mind? / Gasser, Georg -- Are Near-death Experiences Evidence for the Existence of the Soul? / Goller, Hans -- The Immateriality of the Human Soul / Kanzian, Christian -- Becoming Transcendent: Remarks on the Human Soul in the Philosophy of Illumination / Khatami, Mahmoud -- The Soul, Disposition or Substance? / Kraml, Hans -- A Muslim's Spirit / Legenhausen, Muhammad -- Concepts of the Soul in the Bible and in the Ancient Mediterranean World / Marinkovic, Peter -- Two Problems in the Theory of Substantial Motion / Taqi Miṣbāḥ Yazdī, Muhammad -- Gnostic Elements in Mīr Findiriskī's Theory of Knowledge and the Body-Soul Relation / Namazi Esfahani, Mahmoud -- How can I Survive? The Concept of the Soul and the Problem of Diachronic Personal Identity / Quitterer, Josef -- The Soul-Body Problem in Islamic Philosophical Psychology / Shameli, A. A. -- The Creation of the Human Soul: An Islamic Perspective / Ali Shomali, Mohammad -- The Simple View of Personal Identity and its Implications for Substance Dualism / Stefan, Matthias -- Two Kinds of Ontological Dualism / Tegtmeier, Erwin -- On Subjects / Wehinger, Daniel -- The Editors. List of Authors -- Backmatter