Ayatullah Syed Baqir-us-Sadr
HIS WORKS
Our Philosophy
The subject
discussed by this book, has touched on the main and
fundamental concepts of the world and the method of
thinking about it. So, the research in this book on two
parts go like this:
First, The philosophical concept of the world.
Second, the theory of cognition or knowledge.
In the first one, the research summed up as follows:
A, studing the basic sources of cognition which are
vision and sanction.
In the first one (vision) the writer (Shahid Sadr),
discussec some theories about this regard. These
theories are: The theory of "Plato Exemplary", "rational
theory" and "sensualia theory". after the full pondering
about these theories, the writer prefers the fourth one
which is "Abstraction theory". This is a theory which
Moslem philosophers rely on it.
The summary of this theory is:
Notions ae divided in two kinds:
1 - Primary notions which are the main ones of man's
mind and are developed by sense. These sensate meanings
developed the first rational priciple. Then on the basis
of it, the mind, develops secondary notions, and as a
result initiates the role of innovation and development.
According to this theory it is called "abstraction". The
mind as a result of these primary meaning, achieves new
meanings which are out of the frame of sense.
This theory is harmonized with reasoning and experience
and can categorically and firmly interpret all notional
details.
The second kind (aknowlegement) discusses about two
rational and empirical theories. Shahid Sadr (the
writer) rejects the second theory (empirical) and
explains the weak pionts of schools adopted marxism and
positivism which proved the right of the mental logic
that bases upon the mental method in thinking and taking
into consideration.
Mind is the most superior criterion for man's thinking,
and there is no philosophical or scientific idea without
submitting it to this rife criterion. Even the
experience, the more superior criterion from the
expirimental person, point of view, the first criterion
is not a mean but for using the intellect criterion, and
empirical theory always needs to intellect logic.
From the rationalists piont of view, mankind sciences
are divided in two kinds. The first one is "necessary or
self-evident science". According to this science, ego,
accepts this science without any reason. like the
principle of causation and principle of the imposibility
of conjuction two contradictories. These issues are the
root of all sciences. The second one is "speculative"
sciences which the ego, for being confident about thier
truth, needs to be sure about them before, and there is
a necessity of thiking and reasoning mechanism to judge
about accepting or rejecting them. like the globosity of
ground or the impasibility of vicious circle.
Rationalists believe the intellct is deductive.
Studying the Value of the Human Understanding and to
what Extent that the Huminity may find its way to the
Objective Reality.
In the beginnig of his research the author (May God rest
his soul in Peace) starts explaining the ancient Greek
philosophers' viewpoints and their various inclinations
together with sophistic one.
Then he has shifted the theme to speak about the leaders
of the philosophical ranaissance in Europe, for
instance, Renإ Descartes and John Locke.
Next he went farther in his discussion to review the
ideal doctrine with its modern inclinalions that is to
say the philosophical , physical and physiological
idealism. There upon he moved to argue convincingly the
modern suspicion supporters' perspectives.
He has reviewed in details the relativity theory and
affirmed its ignorance to the absolute fact and with
regard to the objective and individual aspect it is no
more than a mixture only.
Among a group of inclinations he has dealt with the
scientific suspicion and its theories in the fields of
manner, psychologicla analysis and historical materalism
doctrine. Somewhere of his research the author had
stopped a while to throw lights on the submission of the
historical materialism to the individual relativity
through making full confession to the caste
individuality system and he defuted its claims to not do
so.
For your information, we would like to tell you that all
mentioned inclinations have been argued and defuted
scientifically by the author himself and we leave
judgement for you honourable reader. For you the summed
up headlines of the most rightest doctrine from the
pointview of the author are as follows: 1 - Dividing the
perception into two parts: a/ Valueless objective vision
which means thing seen vividly in our imagination.
b/ Sanction that finds out an objective reality for
vision. 2- All sanctioning understandings can bear
traits due to their background of basic ones, such as,
the non-contradiction and causation principles which
other theoretical knowledges and sanctions should be
built on, for the value and power of such knowledges
depend on that foundation.
3 - The relationship between the mental image and the
objective reality shows on two aspects are as follows:
a/ The mental picture should embody all thing features
else it does not have any kind of image to be formed. b/
This mental image at the same time is different
completely from the objective reality, since it neither
possesses the exact traits that the objective reality
does so for that, nor be provided with what has found in
the reality ifself of patchword activities and energies
whatever so that mental image be on a strict and
detailed degree of clearness, So the image for sun and
heat is unable to stand for the active roles that may be
played by the objective reality for that image outside.
And we can say, due to the philosophical language that
the difference between the thought and reality is the
same as it is between the existence and causation.