Fakhr Razi's approach to the semantic analysis of "knowledge" and related words in religious text

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD student PNU, Iran,Tehran.

2 professor at Imam Sadiq University, Iran, Tehran, Department of Philosophy and Islamic theology.

3 Associate Professor at PNU, Iran, Tehran, Department of Philosophy and Islamic theology.

4 Associate Professor at PNU, Iran, Tehran, Department of Philosophy and Islamic theology

Abstract

By analyses of vocabulary related to the concept of knowledge, such as consciousness (shuʻ ūr), perception (ʼidrāk), understanding (fiqh), comprehension (fahm) and so on, that has been extracted from religious texts Razi provides us some epistemological consequences. Among the findings is that human knowledge is possible and yet limited; knowledge is gradated; people on the basis of their talents are in one of the levels of knowledge; it is not the case that all human beliefs are justified; knowledge by divine gift (‘ilm ladunnī), knowledge through guess (‘ilm ḥadsī), foresight (‘ilm farasah) cannot be rationally justified. Fakhr’s analysis shows that knowledge has interaction with other aspects of human existence. Furthermore, his analysis helps us to withdraw important points to have a religious definition of knowledge. This definition, in addition to belief and truth, reveals the important role of qualitative and quantitative variety of human cognitive powers and the role of trust in others, especially the prophets. This definition is externalistic and shows that issues such as behavior and supernatural factors have effects on knowledge especially on its belief part. The aim of this paper is to offer a new definition of knowledge in the epistemological debates over the use of the content offered by Razi and we used descriptive and analytical methods for this purpose.
 
 
 
 

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Philosophy of Religion
Volume 14, Issue 1
March 2017
Pages 1-20

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