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Maurice Cornforth
a.k.a. Maurice Campbell Cornforth

Maurice Campbell Cornforth (28 October 1909 – 31 December 1980) was a British Marxist philosopher. When he began his career in philosophy in the early 1930s, he was a …

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الدكتور عبد الجبار الرفاعي، مفكر عراقي وأستاذ فلسفة إسلامية، مواليد ذي قار – العراق، سنة 1954.حاصل على عدة شهادات أكاديمية منها دكتوراه فلسفة إسلامية، بتقدير إمتياز، 2005، وماجستير علم کلام، 1990،وبكا…