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Clarification of Application of Self-based Rationality (Descartian Subjectivity) in Religious Pluralism
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Hasan Panahi Azad   , Leila Jabbari |
| Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Theoretical Principles, Islamic Maaref University. |
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Abstract: (4 Views) |
Self-based rationality is one of the epistemological basis of religious pluralism. This concept has its root in Descartian philosophy and his famous idea (cogito ergo sum) and subjectivism. On the basis of these two ideas man and his reason independent from any source of cognition like revelation can find out the realities of universe. Believing to the independence of reason led to this expression: man’s self-based reason. Man’s self-based reason with reliance to the relative thinking caused by humanistic views of Protagoras (Human is the criterion of everything) determined that there is no fixed and confirming reality in the universe and basically the reality is the cognition of subject with his self-based reason. The consequence of this thinking is the rejection of any fixed criterion for humanistic cognitions including religious one. This matter finally led to religious pluralism, so the religious pluralism claims that all religions have an equal degree of truth and justification and there is no religious cognition superior to other one in truth and justification. In another words there is no exclusiveness in truth and justification to any special religion.
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| Keywords: Rationality, Self-based, Subjectivism, Descartian Subjectivism, Religious Pluralism. |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2025/12/17 | Accepted: 2015/10/2 | Published: 2015/10/2
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