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- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Recognition in the Domain of Thoughts
- The Possibility of Recognition
- The Devices and Tools for Discovery and Gaining Knowledge
- The Importance of Adjusting and Refining the Senses
- The Factors that Influence Recognition and Identification
- The Process of Recognition
- Different Forms of Knowledge and Recognition
- Supreme Forms of Knowledge
- The Various Forms of Practical Relationship between the Mind and the Phenomenon to be discovered
- The Activities of the Mind
- Various Relationships between the Mind and the Subject
- The Relationship between the Mind and the Observable Facts in Discovery
- A Criticism of Idealism
- Responding to a Point of Criticism
- From Science to Philosophy: A Look Inside
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- The Definition of Science
- The Levels of Science
- Factors that Make Man Seek Science
- Scientific Laws
- The Definitions of Philosophy
- The Principles of Philosophical Systems
- The Criterion for a Subject Being Scientific or Philosophical
- A Scholar's Philosophical Rise
- The Essence of Supernatural Knowledge
- The Analytical Method or the Combination Method?
- The Differences between Science and Philosophy
- The Classification of Philosophy
- The Advantages of the Collaboration between Science and Philosophy
- The Humanities
- The Necessary Aims of the Philosophy of Science
- The Philosophy of Science and the Humanities
- Philosophical Doubt
- Science and Philosophy in Intelligible Life
- Anthropology: A New Scope
- Theories on Human Nature
- The Human Nature in the Qur’an
- Human Characteristics
- Human Nature
- Man's Internal Potentials
- Interpreting Opposite Potentials
- The Identity of the “Self” (the “ Ego” )
- Self-assessment
- Taking Oneself Seriously
- Good Intentions for the Self
- Self-alienation
- 1. Negative Self-alienation
- 2. Positive Self-alienation
- The Qualities of Existence Dependent upon the Self
- Finding the Roots of Man's Weaknesses
- Conscience
- The Definition of Conscience
- A Scientific and Philosophical Study of Conscience
- The Criticism on the Originality of the Conscience
- The Importance of Conscience
- The Characteristics and Consequences of Conscience
- The Relationship between Recognizing Oneself and Recognizing God
- Man's Four Relationships
- Spiritual Moderation
- The Relativity of Spiritual Moderation
- Spiritual Expansion and Contraction
- The Relativity of Spiritual Expansion
- The Reasons Why Anthropology Has Failed
- The Problems with Contemporary Psychology
- Life: The Hows and Whys
- Education: The Basics
- How Do Cultures Evolve?
- Man and the Universe: What Should Man Do?
- The “What There Should Be” and “What There Is” System
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- The Relationship between Values and Scientific Research
- The Relationship between “What There Should Be” and “What There Is”
- An Analysis of the Relationship between “What There Should Be” and “What There Is”
- The Relationship between “What There Should Be” and “What There Is” in the Qur’an
- The Relationship between Ideology and World-view
- What Is Ideology?
- What Is World-view?
- Life, Rising Up
- Man and Freedoms
- In the Society: From Economics to Politics
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- Work
- The Definition of Work
- The Value of Work
- The Domains of the Value of Work
- Various Kinds and Aspects of Human Work
- The Relationship between Work and Human Life
- Values
- Ownership
- The Natural Roots of Ownership
- The Limitation of Personal Ownership
- Unity among People
- The Various Forms of Unity
- The Factors Influencing Unity in Intelligible Life
- Differences among People
- The Principle of the Mutual Necessity of Unity and Diversity
- The Various Forms of Unity
- Social Order and Cooperation
- The Principles of Social Order and Cooperation
- Power and Right
- Power in the hands of selfish man
- Power in developed man
- A Study of History
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- What Is the Philosophy of History?
- Causality in History
- Is History Motivated Internally or Externally?
- Is There a Single Motivating Reason for History?
- The Necessity of Distinguishing the Necessary Factors from the Determining Factors in History
- Various Viewpoints on the Factors Motivating History
- Does History Advance on an Evolutionary Path?
- Civilizations: The Principles and the Presumptions
- Men and Women: A Serious Study
- God: From Seeking God to Faith in God
- The History of Belief in God
- Void of Reasons for Defying God
- Classifying People based on Their Belief in God
- Factors Inhibiting Obvious Recognition of God
- Essentiality Reasoning
- Faith
- Man's Mental States during Worship
- Is Religion a Personal Matter?
- The Origins of Defying Divine Commandments
- Devotion
- Having God in Mind
- Divine Justice
- The Rule of Kind Favors
- The Consequences of the Rule of Kind Favors
- The Relationship between God and His Creatures
- The Relationship between God and His Creatures in the Qur’an
- Fatalism and Free Will: Which Is the Truth?
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- The Characteristics of Will
- The Difference between Tendency and Will
- The Difference between Will and Determination
- The Quanta of Will
- Is the Will Free?
- The Levels of Free Will
- The Three Fundamental Principles in Proving Free Will
- The Steps toward Making Free Will-based Actions Come True
- Two Kinds of Will, Decision and Supervision in Actions based on Free Will
- A Look at Human Rights
- A Brief Study of the Qur’an
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- What is the Qur’an?
- The Qur’an: A Miracle
- How God's Divine Beauty Can Be Recognized
- The Divinity of the Qur’an
- Thought and Reasoning in the Qur’an
- How the Qur’an Sees the Universe: Carefully Calculated
- The Stories in the Qur’an
- The Rise and Fall of Cultures and Civilizations
- Fear of God as Seen in the Qur’an
- Forget Judgment Day, and There Will Be No Good or Bad
- The Universe on Judgment Day
- The Necessity of Knowing the Qur’an
- The Qur’an and Creation
- The Qur’an and the Consequences of Obeying It
- The Book of Justice and Fairness
- The Book of No Contradictions
- The Qur’an, the Book that Confirms and Verifies Prophets
- The Qur’an, the Panacea for Mankind's Pains
- The Qur’an, The Book for Mankind
- Positive Mysticism
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- The Characteristics of Positive Mysticism
- The Characteristics of Negative Mysticism
- The Ecstatic
- The Conditions and Obstacles on the Path of Mystic Endeavor
- Mysticism and the Four Relationships
- Mystics and the Order and Harmony of Life
- Mysticism, Work and Effort
- Mysticism and Power
- Mysticism and Politics
- Mysticism and the Society
- Mysticism, Wisdom and Science
- Mysticism and Jihad
- Criticizing Nonsense
- Religion, Rule of Life, and the Truth
- Mystic Change
- Arts and Aesthetics
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- Four Various Viewpoints on Art
- The Philosophical Viewpoint on Art
- Pursuant Art, Pioneer Art
- Modernism in Art
- Artists
- Various Types of Beauty
- The Truth about Beauties
- The Virtually Internal Pole of Beauties
- The Virtually External Pole of Beauties
- The Differences between Observable Beauty and Intelligible Beauty
- The Definition of Beauty
- What Does Whitehead Tell Us? A Critique of a Book
The Mystery of Life: A Secret Inside Secrets
BOOK ID
Title: The mystery of life : a secret inside secrets
Author(s): Allamah Muhammad Taqi Jafari
Publisher(s): Tehran: Allameh Jafari Institute 2005 1384
Category: General General
ISBN: 964-6608-28-0
Appearance: 416 p
Congress Classification: BBR1332/ج 7آ32 1384
Dewey decimal classification: 189/1
National bibliography number: 954684
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عنوان و نام پديدآور : The mystery of life : a secret inside secrets/ selections from the writings of Allameh M.T. Jafari; translated by A.J.I. Translation Department, head translator Shahriar Fassih.
مشخصات نشر : Tehran: Allameh Jafari Institute, 2005 = 1384.
مشخصات ظاهری : 416ص.
شابک : 964-6608-28-0
يادداشت : انگلیسی.
يادداشت : چاپ سوم: 1384.
یادداشت : کتابنامه.
یادداشت : نمایه.
آوانویسی عنوان : میستری آو لایف: اسیکرت ایناید سیکرتس
موضوع : جعفری تبریزی، محمدتقی، 1302 - 1377.
موضوع : Jafari Tabrizi, Muhammad Tagh
موضوع : انسان (اسلام)
موضوع : فلسفه اسلامی
رده بندی کنگره : BBR1332/ج 7آ32 1384
رده بندی دیویی : 189/1
شماره کتابشناسی ملی : 954684
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A Secret Inside Secrets, Selections from the books written by Allamah Muhammad Taqi Ja’fariThis book deals with a myriad of subjects related to human life: philosophy, mysticism, anthropology, cultures, arts, history and much more.
Acknowledgments
This is our first step into the world of great human beings who have understood the harmonious rhythm of the universe – and even become part of it. We feel obliged to thank the Mr. Abdullah Nasri, Mr. Shahram Ansari and Mr. Karim Feizi for helping to compile this book. We would also like to thank and Ms. Ruqayya Alizadeh for editing and proofreading the book and Ms. Roya Azizi Mousavi for setting its computer layout, and Mr. M. Hemmathi for designing the cover of this book.
The contents of this book have been compiled and selected from the following books written by Allamah Ja’fari:
• from a Scientific and Qur’anic Point of View, 1982
• A Study of the Philosophy of Science, 1992
• A Study and Critique of David Hume's Thoughts on Four Philosophical Issues, 1992
• A Study and critique of The Adventures of Ideas, 1991
• The Relationship between Man and the Universe, 1953
• A Study and Critique of the Russell-Wyatt Dialogs, 1964
• The Message of Wisdom, 1998
• An Interpretation and Critique of Rumi's Mathnavi (15 vol.), 1969- 1973
• A Translation and Interpretation of the Nahj-ul-balaghah (27 vol.), 1979-1998
• Conscience, 1966
• Fatalism and Free Will, 1967
• The Philosophy of Life, 1968
• Man in an Elevating, Evolutionary
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