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Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born on April 7, 1933 in Tehran, Imperial State of Iran, to Seyyed Valiollah Nasr, who was a physician to the Iranian royal family, philosopher, and homme de lettres, and one of the founders of modern education in Iran.
A theory of art is intended to contrast with a definition of art.Traditionally, definitions are composed of necessary and sufficient conditions, and a single counterexample overthrows such a definition.
Goethe famously said in 1807 that painting "lacks any established, accepted theory as exists in music". [2] [3] Kandinsky in 1911 reprised Goethe, agreeing that painting needed a solid foundational theory, and such theory should be patterned after the model of music theory, [2] and adding that there is a deep relationship between all the arts, not only between music and painting.
Philosophy of history is the philosophical study of history and its discipline. [1] The term was coined by the French philosopher Voltaire. [2]In contemporary philosophy a distinction has developed between the speculative philosophy of history and the critical philosophy of history, now referred to as analytic.