An Analytic-Critical Reading of the Book of the Nature of Islamic Art (A Collection of Essays and Lectures) by Ali asghar kalantar, Sadeq Rashidi

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A Critical Review on the Book Hume’s Aesthetic Theory, Taste and Sentiment by Zolfaghar Hemmati, Seyyed Mostafa Shahraeini

“…Before that, Hume's commentators hold that his aesthetics was explained only in his short essay entitled as Standard of Taste. But Townsend shows that Hume's aesthetic can be found in other works, such as A Treatise of Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. …”
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Epistemic Roots, Universal Routes and Ontological Roofs of African “Ritual Archives”: Disciplinary Formations in African Thought by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…This essay responds to the resonance of those ideas, further illuminating their intrinsic semantic values and demonstrating my perception of the intersections of the concerns they express with issues beyond the African referent of “Ritual Archives”. …”
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Cosmotechnologies of Community and Collaboration in Vandana Singh’s Speculative Architectures by Joel P.W. Letkemann

“…For architects, this means considering how much architecture today is constrained by a singular technological paradigm, and how architects can think the many technologies of architecture differently. This essay considers architectural cosmotechnology through discourses in global speculative fiction (SF), fictions proceeding from different ways of understanding and being in the world, to explore the future implications of these fictions for architecture and other technological practices in contrast to the hegemony of global modernism – what I have called cosmotechnologies of community and collaboration. …”
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Fálétí’s Philosophical Sensibility by Adeshina Afolayan

“…Fálétí’s Philosophical Sensibility 61 Both the poets and the philosophers have always had one thing in common— the exploration of the possibilities that ideas and visions yield: As theoretical disciplines concerned with raising social consciousness, philosophy and literature engage in similar speculation about the good society and what is good for humanity. …”
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A Manifest against Optimism and Self-consciousness: A Critique of the Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer Based on the Book of "Ethics, Law, and Politics” by Reza Nasiri Hamed

“…In this paper, we try to survey his ontological, epistemological, and methodological foundations, as well as the relation between the conditions and the context of his personal and social life with his thoughts, to understand his most important concerns. Also, while referring to the structure of this book in terms of its form and content, the relation of our current world to the Schopenhauer's thoughts and reflections is analyzed briefly. …”
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Dealing with Complexity – Knowledge, design, and management of the built environment by Cesare Sposito, Francesca Scalisi

“…AGATHÓN issue number 16 is a collection of essays, studies, research and projects on ‘Dealing with Complexity | Knowledge, design, and management of the built environment’. …”
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