International Journal of Philosophy

Volume 8, Issue 4, December 2020

  • The Values of Cultural Beliefs from Traditional Festivals Among the Khmer Mekong Delta - Study Typical Traditional Festivals

    Nguyen Chi Hai, Nguyen Ho Thanh

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 4, December 2020
    Pages: 82-87
    Received: Oct. 26, 2020
    Accepted: Nov. 07, 2020
    Published: Nov. 16, 2020
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    Abstract: The cultural belief are a social phenomenon, it has inheritance, it always exists in the flow of the movement and development of history - society. Each ethnic group, with its historical conditions, has a traditional culture with its own unique, long-standing, and stable features, which is the national cultural identity. The cultural beliefs are a ... Show More
  • Onweonye: Introducing the Concept of Self-Personhood in Igbo Ontology

    Chika John Bosco Gabriel Okpalike

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 4, December 2020
    Pages: 88-97
    Received: Oct. 27, 2020
    Accepted: Nov. 07, 2020
    Published: Nov. 24, 2020
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    Abstract: Faced with an unprecedented and challenging socio-political situation at home (Nigeria), the Igbo struggle for survival and relevance throughout the world has taken various forms in the last five decades. Industry, commerce, education, invention/innovation have been undertaken together with an unprecedented spate of emigration, which has seen the I... Show More
  • The Relationship Between Rational Cooperation and Constrained Maximizers

    Deng Siyang

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 4, December 2020
    Pages: 98-103
    Received: Dec. 06, 2020
    Accepted: Dec. 21, 2020
    Published: Dec. 28, 2020
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    Abstract: From the perspective of actors' pursuit of rational self-interest, Gauthier's contractarianism links justice, rationality and morality, he attempts to deduce moral principles from non-moral premises by combining the method of contract theory, rational choice theory and game theory, and establish a just contract between rational actors to provide a ... Show More
  • An Analysis of History, Causality and Evolution in Islamic, Iranian and Polish Philosophy

    Mohammadreza Shahidipak

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 4, December 2020
    Pages: 104-111
    Received: Oct. 28, 2020
    Accepted: Nov. 26, 2020
    Published: Dec. 31, 2020
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionity
    Abstract: The historical issue of the clash of civilizations from traditional to postmodern has led to emergence of reactionary and evolutionary ideas. My goal is to compare the philosophy of history in Polish Catholic and Iranian Islamic philosophical schools. Avicenna, AL-Farabi, Ibn Muskawiyyah, Averroes, Ibn Khaldun have presented political hypotheses ab... Show More
  • A Vision of the Happy Society: A Discourse in the Political Philosophy of W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz

    Dilipkumar Mohanta

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 4, December 2020
    Pages: 112-119
    Received: Oct. 30, 2020
    Accepted: Dec. 05, 2020
    Published: Dec. 31, 2020
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionity
    Abstract: As we are living today in an inter-dependent globalized world, which is a world created by us, we cannot aspire to build happy societies unless our political thinking and action are guided by values. The primary value in socio-political life is cooperation. It is integrally connected with freedom. Korab-Karpowicz proposes seven principles that char... Show More