The Consequences of Creating a Life Making Sense Based on Allamah Tabatabaei`s Method

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 PhD Candidate of Teaching Islamic Instructions, Tehran University

2 Assistant Professor in Department of Philosophy, Shahid Beheshti University

3 Associate professor in Department of Philosophy, Shahid Beheshti University

10.22034/ra.2019.74434.2055

Abstract

One of the issues having attracted the attention of those philosophers focusing the necessities of a “good life” is that how a belief, regardless of its correspondence to reality, affects one`s life. This issue has been assumed of greater importance in the case of those beliefs whose falsity and truth may not be easily perceieved. The paper views creating a life making sense only from this aspect. If we believe in a life making sense, depending on the factors which gives meaning to life, we will think of diverse consequences of this meaningfulness. The present study investigates the effect of human life`s taking meaning in the method of Allamah - i.e. through holding communication with God – from different perspectives and provides for comparing any positive effect of the methods taken by others. Such a communication is accompanied by a look toward world and human which answers the fundamental questions of human life, interprets sufferings and pains as groundwork of mental growth and sees death as an entrance to the eternal life and then leads human beings to encounter life responsibly and seriously; in this way, not becoming sorrowful and joyful of what missed and what attained respectively, one may arrive at mental peace and satisfaction. In addition, such a view brings about an indescribable bilateral love from which a joyful state originates. In the path toward absolute perfection, feeling love to others as the Divine manifestations would support one in the way.

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Religious Anthroplogy
Volume 15, Issue 40
March 2019
Pages 5-26

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