The Basic Principles of Critiques of Modernity in Seyyed Hussein Nasr's thought

Seyyed Hussein Nasr, like other traditionalists, is a serious critic of modernism. He considers this criticism of modernism as Something divine and a duty of all Islamic thinkers and theologians. He not only criticizes the negative consequences and effects of modernism, but also believes that its theoretical foundations are shaky. According to him, the amnesia of Divine Reality, the loss of the sense of the sacred in human knowledge, replacing theocentrism with humanism, and lacking of spirituality are fundamental critiques of western civilization. Undermining religion, promoting fundamentalism, destroying environment, scientism, individualism, creating moral crisis, losing family identity, and changing the concepts of freedom, human rights, etc. are Dr. Nasr's other critiques of western civilization. He is unable to present a proper alternative for modernism, and considers the goodness of modernism as accidental and its badness as essential. He proposes traditionalism as the alternative for modernism, which itself is created by the West and has some problems. This paper, using a documentary and analytical method, investigates modernity from his point of view.