Shariati's Ontology and Encounter between "Self" and "Other"

Document Type : Research Paper

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Assistant professor of Shahid Mahallati Higher Education institute

10.22061/orj.2024.2078

Abstract

Man and his type of encounter with existence have a very high importance and place in Shariati's thought. Basically Shariati's ontology and anthropology are in strong connection with each other. Therefore, we can ask what view Shariati's ontology presents about man and his relationship with "other"? The result is reaching the duality of monotheism and contradiction, as the most important unsolvable problem in Shariati's ontology. This issue cause’s dialectics to prevail over Shariati's thought. The centrality of the dialectical movement in Shariati's ontology forces him to equate man with rebellion and encounter with popular religion and the modern world, and this subject of "being in the world" puts man under the shadow of the passion for liberation and destroys the possibility of the desirable encounter with “other”. Shariati sometimes provides discontinuous possibilities that indicate the human subjectivity and a favorable attitude towards "the other", But in the whole of his thought system, these possibilities collapse and in the best situation, the ideal encounter with the other will be an unformed situation in his thought.

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