Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Comparative Study of Shared Views of Muslim and Non-Muslim Scholars on Philosophy and Education

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Comparative Study of Tusi and Aristotle’s Shared Views on Philosophy
• Introduction
• Ontology
• Tusi
• Anthropology
• The superiority of human being
• The truth of human being
• The faculties of the soul
• Free will and authority
• Rationality
• Being sociable
• Complimentary and evolutionary movement
• Achieving the Position of nearness to God
• Aristotle
• Epistemology
• Tusi
• Aristotle
• Axiology
• Tusi
• Ethics
• Aristotle
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 2: Comparative Study of Ghazali and Augustine’s Shared Views on Philosophy
• Introduction
• Ontology
• Ghazali
• The essence of God
• Augustine
• Anthropology
• Ghazali
• Augustine
• Epistemology
• Ghazali
• Augustine
• Axiology
• Ghazali
• Augustine
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 3: Comparative Study of Ibn Miskawayh and Aquinas’s Shared Views on Philosophy
• Introduction
• Ibn Miskawayh's views on Ethics
• Natural and ordinary Ethics
• Man’s original nature
• Virtues and vices
• Pleasure and its kinds
• Happiness and its kinds
• Thomas Aquinas's Views on Ethics
• God and Happiness
• Moderation and four cardinal virtues
• The problem of evil
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 4: Comparative Study of Farabi and Spinoza's Shared Views on Philosophy
• Introduction
• Ontology
• Farabi
• Spinoza
• Anthropology
• Farabi
• Freedom and Authority
• Spinoza
• Epistemology
• Farabi
• Spinoza
• Axiology
• Farabi
• Virtue
• Ethics and Morality
• Spinoza
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 5: Comparative Study of Ibn Sina and Edwards’s Shared Views on Philosophy
• Introduction
• Ontology
• Avicenna
• Edwards
• Anthropology
• Avicenna
• Edwards
• Epistemology
• Avicenna
• Axiology
• Avicenna
• Changeability of Morality
• Standard of Virtue, and Principle of Virtues and Vices
• Pleasure and Pain
• Superiority of Inner Pleasures to Sensory Pleasures
• Intellectual and Sensory Pleasures
• Suffering of the Soul from Ignorance
• Happiness
• The Way of Acquisition of Happiness
• Rank of those who have attained happiness
• Rank of the Atrocious
• Edwards
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 6: Comparative Study of Rumi, Saadi, Rousseau, Dewey’s Shared Views on Moral Education
• Introduction
• A Brief Biography of Rumi, Saadi, Rousseau, Dewey
• A. Rumi's Views on Moral Education
• Goals of Education
• Annihilation in God
• Voluntary death
• Intuition or knowledge by heart
• Immediate receiving of God’s bounty or emanation
• Cultivation and guidance of intellect and thought
• Solving the existential problems
• Individual Differences
• Real Knowledge
• Educational Principles
• 1. Submission to God
• 2. Following the Educator
• 3. Motivation and Request
• 4. Effort and Activity
• 5. God’s bounty and grace
• 6. Esteem or the dignity of man
• 7. Sociability
• 8. Individualism
• 9. Simplification
• Educational Methods
• Methods for educating students
• 1. Suggestopedia or mimesis method
• 2. Affection Method
• 3. Encouragement or punishment Method
• 4. Good Admonishment or Positive Advice Method
• 5. Counseling Method
• 6. The Method of taking an object lesson
• 7. Storytelling Method
• 8. Exemplum Method
• Methods for training Self
• 1. Fulfillment of Knowledge
• 2. Loving God
• 3. Watching over the soul and self- examination
• 4. Reciting the Quran
• 5. Remembrance and Thinking
• B. Saadi's Views on Moral Education
• Educational Goals
• 1. Detachment
• 2. Cultivation of spirit
• 3. Health of Body
• 4. Social Adjustment
• Teaching and Instructional Methods
• Educational Contents
• Individual Differences
• Real Knowledge
• 1. Intellectual Education
• 2. Religious Education
• 3. Mystical Education
• 4. Moral Education
• C. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Views on Moral Education
• Paying Attention to Individual Aptitudes and Differences
• Method of Observing the Measure of Individuals’ Aptitude in their Moral Education
• Principle of Making Environmental Conditions Sound
• Preparation Method
• Method of Travel
• Patterning Method
• Principle of Responsibility
• Method of Confrontation with the Results of One’s Deeds
• Method of Bearing Hardship
• Principle of Showing Affection and Not Showing Affection
• Principle of Not Following Community
• Method of Keeping Children Away from Community
• Method of Natural Punishment
• Method of Negative Education
• D. John Dewey's views on moral education
• Conclusion
• References
• General Conclusion