Wisdom And Philosophy

Formulating the Distinction between Etebar and Real Affairs based on Allameh Tabatabai's Interpretation of Idealism

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Reza Akbarian 1
Mohammad Saeedimehr 1
Alireza Sadeghi 2

1 Professor, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

2 Ph.D. Candidate in Islamic Philosophy, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2021.48451.1788
Abstract
Allameh Tabatabai has repeatedly mentioned Etebar matters and wishful thinking and has put them in front of real things. Etebar matters are irregular ideas that are dependent on human will, but after their will, nothing is added to the outside world. Allameh Tabatabai believes that idealism - denial of certain perceptions according to reality - entails the arbitrary of all ideas and consequently, the irregularity and chaos of all human behaviors. This article, by rejecting the mismatch between an idea's intentionality and its non-dependence on man, has shown that the division of things into real affairs and Etebar affairs is not based on belief in realism and certain perception according to the reality and maybe idealists based on Allameh Tabatabai's foundations. We proved that even In Allameh Tabatabai's Interpretation of Idealism we can be logically idealists and at the same time divide things into Etebar affairs and real affairs.

Keywords

Etebar affairs
Real affairs
Idealism
Allameh Tabatabai
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Wisdom And Philosophy
Volume 17, Issue 66
Summer 1999
Pages 29-50

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