semantic patterns

Current lifestyles in human societies are influenced by various apparent causes and factors. According to these causes, many discourses have formed to achieve an ideal lifestyle. However, understanding the nature of these causes and their relation with the ‘meaning of life’ can serve as a guide for individuals to attain the most desirable lifestyle. The main philosophical principle that serves as the foundation for lifestyle analysis is the ideal concept of having an ‘ideal lifestyle’, and it seems that achieving this ideal lifestyle is among the human ideals that can be realized by properly understanding and explaining the ‘meaning of life’ and internalizing and institutionalizing it within man. This study aims to achieve this goal through rational-analytical methodology. After defining and identifying the origins of these two concepts, which stem from human faculties such as theoretical intellect and practical intellect, it can be said that the meaning of life and lifestyle are mutually related and reciprocal. The ‘meaning of life’ forms lifestyle (creation), and ‘lifestyle’ contributes to the stability and enhancement of the ‘meaning of life’ (motivation). The ‘meaning of life’ establishes meaningful patterns, which in turn lead to behavioral patterns. Lifestyle is composed of a set of behavioral patterns in different spheres of life, and each behavioral pattern can manifest in various ways. Religion also plays an important role in forming the ‘meaning of life’ and influencing ‘lifestyle’. Furthermore, ‘lifestyle’, influenced by customs, climatic conditions, and geographical factors, can impact the form and appearance of religious rituals and practices. Explaining the various aspects of the relation between these two concepts and proving their complete correlation are the findings of this study.

In spite of a general commonsensical understanding of justice, the plurality of the considerations that are involved in its social applications has subjected the air of justice discourse to confusion. The question is whether the term justice is used univocally in such various domains as law, politics, and economy and whether semantic patterns of justice such as granting right, observing competency, equality, impartiality and balance are reducible to a single comprehensive pattern. No doubt there are opposing views on principles of justice and identification of its instances but question is whether all these themes under the title of justice deal with one and single problem and whether one can speak of the coherent ideas when they are based on different ideological principles and various epistemic foundations. The present article is to show that before entering ideological disputes on theories of justice a semantic analysis of social justice can provide answers to aforementioned questions and pave the way for adopting more reasonable standpoint among rival theories.