Philosophy and Dream
Philosophy and Dream

Summary/Abstract: Dreams are inseparable parts of our life. In the past some philosophical books had been studying philosophical aspects of this phenomenon and extracting its important points. But nowadays some philosophers do not take it seriously. In our age, discussion of dream is granted to other scholars such as Freud. He has reduced all dreams to unfulfilled desires. After him, this view of point has been accepted more or less by other scientists. Although dreams have been remained multi directional among many people, but deep philosophical investigation has not done on it and has been granted to those that had not have necessary ability to discuss it multi directional. Some branches of philosophy,including philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics, should study dreams. Surely it does not contrast other aspects of dream that psychologists and psychoanalysts consider it. The important heritage of philosophy, mysticism and religion about oneirology should be deepened on new achievements. This paper is an attempt to show the importance of philosophical aspects of dream and show analytically that three branches of philosophy should study it: philosophy of religion, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. Other branches were not mentioned here.

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