210 / Philosophy in Help of Politics / February 16, 2013 / Denmark

On Saturday, February 16, 2013 5:40 PM, bagher mohammadpour <bmp1337@yahoo.com> wrote to 

sum@sum.dk <sum@sum.dk>;

stm@stm.dk <stm@stm.dk>;

fivu@fivu.dk <fivu@fivu.dk>;

min@fivu.dk <min@fivu.dk> :

The right Honourable Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Prime Minister of Denmark

The right HonourableVilly Søvndal
Minister for Foreign Affairsof Denmark

The right Honourable Astrid Krag

Minister for Health of Denmark

The right Honourable Morten Østergaard,Minister of Science, Innovation and Higher Education of Denmark

 

Dear Honourables, I am not ignorant enough to be pride of myself but as far as I know my Iranian colleagues, not too many of them have such a wide interests and be so serious and thirsty to write some of the best philosophers of our age in search of more knowledge. Variety of titles and subjects of the books I bought in Paris is another proof on genuine of my intellectual interests: The exact problem lead to my suffering in Iran.

 

Here and at the end of this email I sincerely reiterate my request of help. I hope be accepted in your country as an independent immigrant or a workforce.I shall my best to be helpful to your country and pharmaceutical industries.

 

My last but not the least request is be informed of final decision of your country on my request. Unreasonable silence of others till now have ruined more than six years of my life but so slowly that no one would call it murder. My journey to Europe inevitably would come to its end by the first week of April or maybe few days sooner. I hope I would have been informed of the fate of my request till then. This email is the last of my Trilogy.

 

Sincezrely yours

B Mohamamdpour.

Paris, France.

16/02/2013.

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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: bagher mohammadpour <bmp1337@yahoo.com>
To: A. C.- S. <a.c-s@orange.fr>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:39 PM
Subject: Sponville on Free Will

Dear Professor Comte-Sponville On page 126 of Great Virtues, Vintage 2003, we read: "I have never been able to bring myself to believe in Free Will, but again this is not the place to go into my reasons."   1 Are any of  your own references in note 14 on the subject translated into English?   2 Do you know any English book(s) which you find them most close to your beliefs on the matter?   3 Many of your references in Great Virtues are in English but you have not replied any of my emails in English yet! From a Third Person's point of view, does not it seem a little strange replying an English email in French?   Surely you would remain my best and closest intellectual friend in my life and I always will be pride of it. Great Virtues is a mine of golden discoveries in Morality, psychology and philosophy and I would live the rest of my life in the companionship of  "your Great Virtues" (in two meanings)! Respectfully yours B Mohammadpour           Dear Professor Comte-Sponville On page 126 of Great Virtues, Vintage 2003, we read: "I have never been able to bring myself to believe in Free Will, but again this is not the place to go into my reasons." 1 Are any of references mentioned in note 14 on the subject translated into English? 2 Do you any English book(s) which you find them most close to your beliefs on the matter? 3 Many of your references in Great Virtues are English but you have not replied any of my emails in English! From a Third Person's point of view, does not it seem a little strange replying an English email in French? Surely you would remain my best and closest intellectual friend in my life and I always will be pride of it. Great Virtues is a mine of golden discoveries in Morality, psychology and philosophy. Respectfully yours B Mohammadpour

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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: bagher mohammadpour <bmp1337@yahoo.com>
To: Joseph Raz <jr159@columbia.edu>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 1:58 PM
Subject: I am not a Modern, but an Ancient man!

Dear Professor J Raz

 

Thank you much for your prompt reply. The most pleasurable experience of my life is reading from The Greats: their books or their letters. By letter, I am their guest and it is too great pleasure and a sign of their kindness and Greatness.

 

Unfortunately I am not a Modern but somehow and in many respects an Ancient one!

Secondly I prefer study long texts from books and carry them wherever I move. And thirdly, books are The Most Sacred Objects of my life and having them is my most pleasurable worldly experience!

 

For all these reasons I Love having, studying and even touching them. My personal collection has more than 3000 serious books none is readable when the reader is not ready for a serious and hard job of thinking and understanding. Mora than 200 of them are on English language and sixty of these 200 are monolingual English dictionaries!

 

 

Best regards

B Mohammadpour

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From: bagher mohammadpour <bmp1337@yahoo.com>
To: polkobela@matavnet.hu
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 11:58 AM
Subject: I am an Iranian pharmacist in Paris

Dear Professor Bela Polko

I am an Iranian pharmacist in Paris. I would be extremely pleased if you kindly introduce me at least three books on each of the following subjects at three levels from essential to advanced: 1-Law and philosophy of law. 2-Ethics and morality. 3-Rights. 4-Modern politics. 5-Liberalism/Conseratism: old and new. 6-The Ways the theoretical principles should be translated into political institutions. 7-Logic and critical tghinking as are used in the above menthioned deciplines. Sincerely Yours B MohammadpourParis France

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From: bagher mohammadpour <bmp1337@yahoo.com>
To: r.layard@lse.ac.uk
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 10:48 AM
Subject: An Iranian pharmacist from Paris

Dear Professor Richard LAYARD

 

I am very pleased for finding this opportunity to write you. Your book on HAPPINESS is packed of fine and valuable points and discoveries on our situation in modern world and societies.

 

The role of economy has never been so absolute and inescapable during the history of us miserable social animals on the earth. This means without a reasonable knowledge and understanding of "economics", the Basis and Modern, our understanding of our life and time could not be faithful to reality.

 

I would be delighted if you kindly introduce me some textbooks which are most suitable for nonprofessional and some others on the spacial aspects of modern economy on our life, planet and future. And a good conceptual dictionary or one- or two-volume encyclopedia on economy which provide the most possible information for ease of reference and further understanding of the subject.

 

According to Stein Ringen in "What Democracy Is For?" Economy must be Democratized. Do you thing there is any way to it?

 

I wish you the best and hope you would like this small and absolutely Iranian gift that also has something from your country which has its unique background and influence on Iranian poem and painting (especially Miniature) and art in general.

 

Sincerely yours

B Mohammadpour

(An Iranian pharmacist from Paris)

 

http://www.qoqnoos.com/body/caligraphy/JRASSOLI/p01.htm

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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Jon Elster <je70@columbia.edu>
To: bagher mohammadpour <bmp1337@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: From an Iranian pharmacist

The attached pieces may be a beginning. For a fuller treatment, see my books EXPLAINING SOCIAL BEHAVIOR and, especially, SECURITIES AGAINST MISRULE (March 2013). Good luck! yours, Jon Elster Quoting bagher mohammadpour <bmp1337@yahoo.com>:   > Dear Professor Jon Elster     >   > In your article "The Market and the Forum" in the above book you set  out a series of objections to the Social Choice Theory some of which  are based on "neglecting this theory some elementary facts of human  psychology. >   > I would be greatly pleased if you kindly introduce me at least three  books (or more) in which the most important elementary (and  non-elementary) of human psychology are introduced and discussed  which gain the most weight and importance in studying and  understanding human beings' behavior in main domains of social life  like every-day-life, politics, economy and ethics. >   > I am an Iranian pharmacist from Paris. >   > Respectfully yours > B Mohammadpour

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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: bagher mohammadpour <bmp1337@yahoo.com>
To: jacqueline_kim@harvard.edu
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 1:56 PM
Subject: A Request and a smal Iranian gift

Dear Professor Amartya Sen

 

I am very pleased for finding this opportunity to write you one of the best most well-known moral and scientific figures of our time.

 

The role of economy has never been so absolute and inescapable during the history of us miserable social animals on the earth. This means without a reasonable knowledge and understanding of "economics", the Basis and Modern, our understanding of our life and time could not be faithful to reality.

 

I would be delighted if you kindly introduce me some textbooks which are most suitable for nonprofessional and some others on the spacial aspects of modern economy on our life, planet and future. And a good conceptual dictionary or one- or two-volume encyclopedia on economy which provide the most possible information for ease of reference and further understanding of the subject.

 

According to Stein Ringen in "What Democracy Is For?" Economy must be Democratized. Do you thing there is any way to it?

 

I wish you the best and hope you would like this small and absolutely Iranian gift that also has something from your country which has its unique background and influence on Iranian poem and painting (especially Miniature) and art in general.

 

Sincerely yours

B Mohammadpour

(An Iranian pharmacist from Paris)

 

http://www.qoqnoos.com/body/caligraphy/JRASSOLI/p01.htm

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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Joseph Raz <joseph.raz@law.ox.ac.uk>
To: bagher mohammadpour <bmp1337@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 2:01 AM
Subject: RE: A request from an Iranian pharmacist in Paris

Dear M. Mohammadpour Thank you for your email. I believe that a good way to start exploring these issues is by reading about them in philosophical encyclopedias. They provide introductory surveys as well as recommendations for further reading. My favourite is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which is a free on-line work. You will find it at http://plato.stanford.edu/ Yours sincerely Joseph Raz ======================== Joseph Raz Columbia University http://josephnraz.googlepages.com/ ======================== ________________________________________ From: bagher mohammadpour [bmp1337@yahoo.com] Sent: 30 March 2010 13:28 To: jr159@columbia.edu; cabber@law.columbia.edu Subject: A request  from an Iranian pharmacist in Paris Dear Professor J Raz I am delighted finding this golden opportunity to write you. I am an Iranian pharmacist in Paris. First time I heard about your in Stein Ringen's book "What Democracy Is For?". Immediately I ordered and purchased you Excellent book "The Morality of Freedom" but my bookseller could not find the rest of your books and said they are out of print/stock but I will have them finally. Dear professor Raz I would be extremely pleased if you kindly introduce me at least three books on each of the following subjects at three levels from essential to advanced: 1-Law and philosophy of law. 2-Ethics and morality. 3-Rights. 4-Modern politics. 5-Liberalism/Conseratism: old and new. 6-The Ways the theoretical principles should be translated into political institutions ( the last sentence of the first paragraph of 2-The importance of politics; page 3.) 7-Logic and critical tghinking as are used in the above menthioned deciplines.

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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Joseph Raz <jr159@columbia.edu>
To: bagher mohammadpour <bmp1337@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: An Educational Request from an Iranian pharmacist in Paris

I am glad that you are interested in these issues, and that you intend to spend years studying them. The question is where to begin. I would recommend starting with the Stanford Encyclopaedia  of Philosophy. It is a free on line resource written by experts: http://plato.stanford.edu/

I do not necessarily agree with everything they have there on rights. But it will be both an introduction, and provide you with ideas on how to carry on - what other works to read.

Joseph Raz

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Joseph Raz

jr159@columbia.edu

Website: http://sites.google.com/site/josephnraz/

SSRN papers: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=82848

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On 22 Jul 2011, at 14:06, bagher mohammadpour wrote:

Dear Professor J Raz

I want to know the last and the best opinions on

 

1   The nature of Rights: are they Discoveries or Conventions?

2   The sources of Rights;

3   Their role in legal systems;

4   The relation between laws and Rights;

5   How do Philosophy and Human and Natural Sciences affect Rights?

6  What are the great schools of Rights?

7  The role of religions and cultures on Rights.

 

... and finally on the design and structure of a legal sytem!

 

and too many others which you know and I don't!

 

I would be extremely pleased if you kindly introduce me not more than five books which answer the above questions and what is necessary to know for an student of Law: I am not an student of law but like to know these subject from an academic point of view: from basic up to postgraduate level.

 

Best regards

B Mohammadpour

(pharmacist)