Document Type : Scientific Research
Author
university of qom
Abstract
Allameh Tabatabai’s constructional perception theory, as one of hisoutstanding thoughts,has oftenconsideredas an epistemological theory, so that it is merely studied and applied in this viewpoint. But comprehensive lookat theTabatabai’s literature, in order to find different usages of this theory, shows that it has boldontologicalaspect in Tabatabai’s thought. Inthisviewpoint, the world, as the material realm of reality, has a virtual construction of reality, so that it is betweentwo real worlds: the prior and posterior esoteric actual worlds. Just as therelationship between the material world and the two other prior and posterior real worlds is exoteric/esoteric relation, the relationship between the constructional realities and actual realities is exoteric/esoteric one.Tabatabai believes that human confining to imaginary concepts of material life is as same as falling in constructional realm and neglecting of their esoteric truth.
Keywords
- Constructional perception
- Ontology of constructional realm
- Epistemology of constructional realm
- Function of estimativefaculty
- Tabatabai.
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