Classification

Article Abstract:

A study explores the dream of the universal in both of its modes, first by following the spirit of theos and logos as represented by the Platonic embrace of totality enshrined in Socrates' unscrupulous rejection of rhetorical dishonesty and then addressing the mechanics of atomism in the case of Cartesian reduction. It then moves from theology to ontology, from the post-synthetic to the post-analytic, to connect the sociological destruction of such pretensions to absolute classificatory veracity.

Analysis, Subjectivity, Classification of sciences, Scientific classification, Representation (Philosophy), Representationism

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Conceptions of authority in Iraqi Shi'ism: Baqir al-Hakim, Ha'iri and Sistani on Ijtihad, Taqlif and Marja'iyya

Article Abstract:

The reasons for the differences between Shi'ite and Sunni political activism and the theories of three contemporary Iraqi Shi'ite clerics are presented. The three thinkers' theories of religious and political authority and their differing conceptions of the scholars their power within the community are compared.

Public affairs, Iraq, Causes of, Religious aspects, Religious conflict

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Cosmopolis and risk: a converstation with Ulrich Beck

Article Abstract:

An interview with sociologist Ulrich Beck is presented, focusing on the relationship between cosmopolitanism or internationalism and contemporary sociology. Beck examines the political, cultural and economic factors contributing to globalization, and discusses the role of risk sociology in cosmopolitanism.

United States, Interview, Risk-taking (Psychology), Risk taking, Sociologists, Internationalism, Beck, Ulrich

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