جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « self-understanding » در نشریات گروه « فلسفه و کلام »

Self-knowledge is one of the most strategic Islamic doctrine for man’s exaltation and man’s position of “servitude to God” and “knowing God”. Researchers on religion have proposed different and sometimes contrary accounts of self-knowledge. One account comes from Mulla Sadra whose high position in the study of religion calls for due consideration. Accordingly, the authors have tried to explain Sadra’s account within a comprehensive and interconnected set of conceptual constituents such as, “the foundations of the issue”, “what, why, and how of self-knowledge” and “its cognitive and practical implications”, thus they have hope to offer a systematic analysis of his account.  According to the findings, Mulla Sadra’s account of “self-knowledge” (i.e. inspection in the essence, attributes and practices of the mind) can be suggested as a standard account to have both a conceptual knowledge of God and intuitive knowledge of Him through the fact that the mind is the very dependence on God and the very relation to Him, rather than something dependent on or related to Him. The advantages of his account are: that it is comprehensive, that it enjoys well-grounded foundations in epistemology, methodology and religious study, that it is practical and that it methodologically considers related traditions such as “He who has known himself has known his Lord Almighty”. The article ends in a few considerations and complementary comments.

Understanding oneself has been of great importance in various areas of thought and discussed from different aspects. Some thinkers believe that self-understanding is intuitive and others consider it to be reflective and interpretative. In the history of western thought, especially in the areas of hermeneutics and phenomenology, Heidegger and Ricoeur are representative of these two different approaches. From this perspective we entitle their views as ontological and semantics. In this writing, we try to elaborate the ontological view point of Heidegger and the semantic approach of Ricoeur concerning the problem of self-understanding in order to pursue the possibility of any graft between them. For revealing the possibility of this graft, we focus on two aspects; We show that: 1- Self-understanding in Heidegger's and Ricoeur's thought be realized within the common horizons of "time", "language" and "the other", though, through different approaches of ontology and epistemology; and 2- For these three horizons in Ricoeur's definition of them, we can define an ontological foundation within the structure of  dasein.  It seem that this ontological basis can be considered to be at the beginning of Ricoeur's epistemological long route. In this regard, we can graft fundamentally these two approaches onto each other.

The concept of action in Heidegger is related to understanding and projection. What Dasein projects is something like the plot in narration. Although narration is not a word of Heidegger, some commentators have a narrativistic interpretation based on historicallity and temporality of Dasein. In this writing we focus on a different interpretation based on fundamental narrativity of Dasein and its relation to action. Our basic thesis is that there is a mutual dependence and hermeneutical circle between actuality and narrativity of Dasein; They are both equal to understanding and projection, so coexist in Dasein' s existential structure. The aim of our discussion is to show that how our actions can be influenced by the way of our narration and interpretation of our life and self-understanding. The analysis of this influence has a basic role in our understanding of the way different narrations such as stories, films, criticisms and…, could affect our behavior and our self-understanding. We find that the understanding of our situation and possibilities can form the kind of our action; Every action as understanding, can open a vast area of possibilities which nonetheless stay hidden. This circle continues perpetually and extends our world.