Tabatabaei’s intuitive knowledge and its application on his mystical views

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D. Graduates of Islamic Mysticism, Islamic Azad University

2 Assistant Professor, Oloum Va Tahghighat University

3 Assistant Professor, Iranian Institue of Philosophy

Abstract

In the latest decades, in west, human perception was precisely explored, and was questioned in some areas. Tabatabaei took a realist position in epistemology. To defend his position, he began to study human knowledge and perception. To avoid skepticism, he gave great importance to intuitive knowledge and based human knowledge on it. Intuitive knowledge is the knowledge of the soul of itself, its faculties, and its interactions and…
This article studies theory of intuitive knowledge and its application on Tabatabaei’s mystical views. According to his theory, by reducing self-employment to body, human being can know abstract entities by intuitive knowledge. 

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