Anthropological Foundations of the Human Sciences According to Allamah Mesbah Yazdi as Compared to Existentialism

AbstractSubject and Objectives: Mesbah Yazdi who had an important role in the process of the Islamization of human sciences, believes that it is Allah who is the axis and center of the world. Insisting, on intellectual, experimental and narrative methods in exploring the human sciences Mesbah Yazdi, believes that: man as an empowered and free being can choose a way to obtain the highest degree of perfection and elevation and to come near to the eternal and absolute source of being, Allah. Existentialists, on the other hand, whether theists or atheists, consider human being as the center of the world and a being that is left to himself, emphasizing on introspection and phenomenology as proper methods. They believe that human essence is being formed permanently and constantly in complete liberty.Method and findings: Present paper is to examine the anthropological foundations of the human sciences by comparing the viewpoint of Mesbah Yazdi (as a representative of the Islamic thought), with that of the existentialist philosophers (as an influential Western school of thought), in an analytically comparative approach, and present its effect on human sciences.Conclusion: Real blunders in the thought of existentialism, have penetrated and deviated the subject, method and purpose of human sciences.

کلیدواژه ها:

anthropological ، existentialism ، Human Sciences ، Mesbah Yazdi ، foundations