The Kierkegaard's sphere of religion and Einolqozat's supra-rational realm

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Kierkegaard, in his theory of stages of life, claims that the sphere of religion is higher than the sphere of ethics, aesthetic and reason. Einolqozat Hamedani also calls the territory of mysticism and tarighat as the supra-rational realm and believes that mystical perception is higher than rational and intuitive perception. This article studies the similarities and dissimilarities of these two ways of living (the sphere of religion and the supra-rational realm) in the thought of these two thinkers. Their common characteristics are surrendering, irregularity, individuality, ineffability and subjectivity. It also compares the keys of entrance to the sphere of religion in the thought of Kierkegaard that are desperation and desire, with the conditions that Einolqozat knows necessary for arriving to the supra-rational realm that are , mistrust and request . Meanwhile it compares one by one the mohammedian and satanic stages in Einolqozat opinion with Abrahamic faith and messianic love stages in Kierkegaard sight.

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