Ontological Foundations in Nasr's Thinking and its Role in Western Criticism

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Department Philosophy of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages. Allameh Tabata'i University

2 Department Philosophy Faculity of Persian Literature Allame Tabataba'i University. Tehran. Iran

10.22061/orj.2024.2165

Abstract

Nasr criticizes the crisis caused by Western epistemology and considers it the result of distance from tradition and creating a distance between being and knowledge. Like the traditionalists, he considers the lack of attention of new philosophers to intuitive intelligence and the ignorance of the sacred knowledge based on it, which is rooted in the human heart, the disconnection with the unseen world and the degradation of intellect to reason are the cause of the current situation. Nasr has explored the role of existence in the great Islamic philosophers from Ibn Sina to MullaSadra and speaks with the aim of showing sacerdness of attention to its existence and coexistence with knowledge. Now that knowledge is devoid of its sacred content and the relationship of Truth or intellectual intuition with the sacred is neglected and the secular world is alien to the memory of God and the presence of the sacred, only by reviving theosophy and connecting intuitive intelligence with the light of Intellect, which is the light of Revelation and the Quran, as well as the practical commitment of man to the knowledge issued by God, can the authentic truths of Being be achieved.

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Journal of Ontological Researches
Volume 13, Issue 25
September 2024

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