Sayyid Qutb (1906—1966) Sayyid Qutb was one of the leading Islamist ideological thinkers of the twentieth century. Living and working in Egypt, he turned to Islamism in his early forties after about two decades as a secular educator and literary writer. As an Islamist, he held that all aspects of society should be conducted according to the Shari’a, das ist, laws of God as derived

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854) F. W. J. von Schelling ist einer der großen deutschen Philosophen des späten 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts. Einige Historiker und Philosophiewissenschaftler haben ihn als deutschen Idealisten eingestuft, zusammen mit J. G. Fichte und G. W. F. Hegel. Solche Klassifizierungen verschleiern die Bedeutung und Einzigartigkeit von Schellings Platz in der Geschichte, anstatt sie zu beleuchten

Political Constructivism Political Constructivism is a method for producing and defending principles of justice and legitimacy. It is most closely associated with John Rawls’ technique of subjecting our deliberations about justice to certain hypothetical constraints. Rawls argued that if all of us reason in the light of these conditions we could arrive at the same judgment about justice. Darüber hinaus, our shared judgment about justice is

Scientific Representation To many philosophers, our science is intended to represent reality. Zum Beispiel, some philosophers of science would say Newton’s theory of gravity uses the theoretical terms ‘center of mass’ and ‘gravitational force’ in order to represent how a solar system of planets behaves—the changing positions and velocities of the planets but not their color changes. Aber, it is very difficult to give a

Guidelines for Authors Authors should follow these guidelines before submitting their final draft. Here are some noteworthy stylistic points that are different from those in journal articles: Avoid all Latin abbreviations such as “etc.” Avoid all contractions such as “don’t.” Do not use the words “recent” or “now” since they likely will be inapplicable fifty years in the future. Do not cite forthcoming articles. Use

Charles Hartshorne: Dipolar Theism From the beginning to the end of his career Charles Hartshorne maintained that the idea that “God is love” was his guiding intuition in philosophy. This “intuition” presupposes both that there is a divine reality and that that reality answers to some positive description of being a loving God. This article focuses on the latter issue, nämlich, Hartshorne’s concept of God.