An examination of the impact of the celibacy of the soul and knowledge on historicity and understanding, through an analysis of the levels of perception, with an emphasis on the views of Allameh Tabatabaei.
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Department of Education, Faculty of Theology, University of Qom, Qom, Iran
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Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, University of Qom, Qom, Iran
Abstract
This article explores the interplay between the theory of the historicity of understanding in philosophical hermeneutics and the impact of the soul's immateriality on it. Philosophical hermeneutics, with its emphasis on phenomenology, considers human beings and all their existential dimensions, including understanding, as temporal and historical. In contrast, Islamic philosophers emphasize the immaterial aspect of human beings and the immateriality of knowledge, considering human perception as an act of the faculties of the soul. This research, by analyzing the levels of perception and the roles of the body and soul in each level, seeks to answer the question of whether the soul's immateriality contradicts the theory of the historicity of understanding, and whether this theory has been established without considering the immaterial dimension of human beings. The answer to this question was investigated through an analysis of the levels of perception using a descriptive-analytical method. The findings of the research indicate that although the immateriality of the soul is incompatible with the phenomenological basis of the historicity of understanding, the theory of historicity is not entirely incompatible with the soul's immateriality. In some cases, such as presentational knowledge (intuitive knowledge) and self-evident propositions, and re-perceived knowledge, historicity is negated, and within the framework of Allameh Tabataba'i's theory of the return of acquired knowledge to presentational knowledge, the historicity of acquired perceptions is negated at the level of presentational perception. Therefore, the immateriality of the soul contradicts the inherent nature of historicity in understanding.
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