The Mystery of Life: Selections from the books written by Allameh Jafari
A Secret Inside Secrets, Selections from the books written by Allamah Muhammad Taqi Ja’fari
This book deals with a myriad of subjects related to human life: philosophy, mysticism, anthropology, cultures, arts, history and much more.
- The Mystery of Life
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
