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Tag: "Ontology"

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  1. 2025. Beyond Totality: Bahá'í Ethics and the Prophetic Epistemology of the Other. Iman Motlagh Arani. — Baha'i ethics are grounded in clear and manifest action, where divine command and civilizational res... Articles-unpublished.
  2. 2025. Superstition and the Structure of True Knowledge: A Bahá'í Critique of Khurāfāt and Epistemic Deviation. Iman Motlagh Arani. — Superstitions — numerology, astrology, psychic powers, esoteric myths — are an epistemic and spi... Articles-unpublished.
  3. 2025. Toward a Unified Bahá'í Paradigm of Science: Integrating the Seven Modes of Knowledge. Iman Motlagh Arani. — Typology of seven interrelated forms of knowledge: material, conceptual, existential, moral, divine,... Articles-unpublished.
  4. 2025. Wisdom and Philosophy in the Bahá'í Faith: On the Divine Horizon of Ḥikmat and the Boundaries of Speculative Reason. Iman Motlagh Arani. — On a Baha'i philosophical paradigm that reconfigures the nature of philosophy itself: a prophetic on... Articles-unpublished.
  5. 2025. Thresholds of Just-Being: Deficiency, Demise, and the Ontology of Belonging. Iman Motlagh Arani. — Belonging is not a binary condition — believer or unbeliever — but a continuum shaped by varying... Articles-unpublished.
  6. 2025. End of Theology, The: Bahá'í Metaphysics and the Limits of Speculative Reason. Iman Motlagh Arani. — On the end of speculative theology, due to divine unknowability, the functions of the Primal Will, t... Articles-unpublished.
  7. 2025. End of Theology, part 2, The: The Metaphysical Status of Cosmos and the Resolution of Kant's Antinomies in Bahá'í Metaphysics. Iman Motlagh Arani. — On the ontological and epistemological status of the cosmos through the lens of Baha'i metaphysics. ... Articles-unpublished.
  8. 2023-01. Discerning a Framework for the Treatment of Animals in the Bahá'í Writings: Ethics, Ontology, and Discourse. Michael Sabet. — Baha'i exegesis can discern a framework governing the treatment of animals and our relationship to t... Articles.
  9. 2022. Architectures of Thinking, The. Jordi Vallverdu Segura, Josuke Nakano. — Sacred architectures play a role in shaping cognition — which results from the relationships betw... Articles.
  10. 2019-12-08. Philosophical Statements by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Some Answered Questions. Abdu'l-Bahá, A. Bolhuis, comp. . — Quotations extracted from Ian Kluge's article "Some Answered Questions: A Philosophical Perspective"... Compilations-personal.
  11. 2015. Archeology of the Kingdom of God, The. Jean-Marc Lepain, Peter Terry, trans. . — Analysis of the spiritual worlds as depicted in philosophical and religious texts, from ancient the ... Books.
  12. 2015. Human Nature and Mental Health: A Bahá'í-Inspired Perspective. Michael L. Penn. — Overview of one research-practitioner’s understanding of the nature of mind from the perspective o... Articles.
  13. 2009. Answered Questions, Some: A Philosophical Perspective. Ian Kluge. — Philosophical foundations of the Baha’i teachings, including ontology, theology, epistemology, phi... Articles.
  14. 2007. Word is the Master Key for the Whole World, The: The Bahá'í Revelation and the "Teaching and Spirit of the Cause" in Dialogical and Personal Thinking. Wolfgang A. Klebel. — The Word of God is the master key that opens all doors; it assures the opening to the meaning of the... Articles.
  15. 2006. Bahá'í Ontology, Part Two: Further Explorations. Ian Kluge. — A further exploration of Baha'i ontology: becoming and change; substance, soul, and identity; the na... Articles.
  16. 2005-11. Collected Essays. John Wiegley. — Dozens of essays on numerous topics of Baha'i thought and practice. Books.
  17. 2005. Bahá'í Ontology, Part One: An Initial Reconnaissance. Ian Kluge. — An initial survey and explication of the ontology implicit in the Baha'i Writings, particularly rega... Articles.
  18. 2004. Reality, Soul, and the Worlds of God. Marian Lippitt, comp, J. Michael Kafes, ed. — Lengthy compilation organized to set forth an ontological and cosmological paradigm of all existence... Compilations-personal.
  19. 2000. Proofs of the Existence of God. Robert Sarracino. — Outline and summary of traditional proofs of God, and cosmological, teleological, and ontological; t... Essays.
  20. 1995. Neo-Platonism: Framework for a Bahá'í Ontology. Mark A. Foster. — Ways to approach the language of philosophical symbolism in the Baha'i teachings. Articles-unpublished.
  21. 1992. Comparison and Transposition of Metaphors in Bahá'í and Syriac Christian Conceptual Systems. Christopher Buck. — Comparison of doctrinal metaphors found in Christianity and the Baha'i Faith through the lens of Sai... Articles-unpublished.
 
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