Dr. Seyed Javad Tabatabai
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Every history is contemporary history – Dr. Javad Tabatabai
Benedetto Croce, the Italian philosopher of history said: "Every history is contemporary history", which means that the historian continuously writes history from the perspective of his time.. Of course, this does not mean that the historian explains the materials of the past with the concepts of the new era, but it means that the meaning of many…
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Secularization and constitutionalism – Seyyed Javad Tabatabai
If we want to have an equivalent for "secularization" in Iran, it is the "constitutional" event. Incidentally, it is interesting to note that religious intellectuals do not discuss this important experience. We keep talking about secularization, but by the way, the important thing for us should be the constitution and we should talk about it.…
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State and sovereignty in Hobbes's political thought – Dr. Javad Tabatabai
Hobbes writes: "The opinion that equal power of the king comes from the contract, or in other words, this power is delegated to him under conditions, arose from not understanding the simple fact that since contracts are nothing more than words and exhalations, to create obligations, compulsions and obstacles No other force except…
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Evolution of the Persian language – Dr. Javad Tabatabai
Although the Persian language in the Islamic period, very soon was able to interpret what Hegel said about the German language: A philosopher like Ibn Sina was able to explain the whole system of the philosophy of the path in Persian more or less firmly, but he gradually lost his ability to express the concepts.…
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The concept of "sovereignty" of modern systems in political thought – Dr. Javad Tabatabai
The concept of "sovereignty" as first compiled and expanded by Boden in a detailed book entitled "Six Offices on the Country" is of special importance from the point of view of the history of political thought.. Boden put forward the abstract concept of "sovereignty" as a substitute for the concept of "absolute province" of the Pope and the Church, and the discussion about the religious concept of politics from the field of…
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How can you live in this city? – Dr. Javad Tabatabai
How can you live in this city? We are destroying something that cannot be restored. Today, it is unlikely that we will be able to save an ideal like Iranshahri's idea. In many ways, work strikes on the body of what is called…
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Iranian philosophy and comparative philosophy – Dr. Javad Tabatabai
Philosophers did not pay attention to Sohrawardi's innovations until Korban explained the meaning of the rebirth of the martyred Sheikh and his place in the history of the continuation of philosophy in Iran by using the phenomenology method.. Of course, this point should not be left unsaid that Corban can be called an Iranologist, because he…
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Intellectuals and guardians of the defense of commitment – Dr. Javad Tabatabai
In Iran, the likes of Al Ahmad and other intellectuals, who were in charge of defending commitment instead of expertise, showed signs of backwardness from both sides.: On the one hand, they had relied to varying degrees on the dead body of the Cold War, but on the other hand, they were left-leaning intellectuals. ("Struck" here…
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Back to the unconscious self – Dr. Javad Tabatabai
Many writers of the last century of Iran, or rather, the masters of sociological ideologies, who put the reconstruction of traditional thought and returning to it as a liberating reaction against the deviance of modernity, since this reconstruction is based on modern thought. and understanding the nature…
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