With the decline of Church authority, the appearance of doubts about and the rejection of beliefs originating from Church theology, and even the rejection of the existence of God as the unique life-giver and organizer of human life, the Western thinkers set out to redesign human truth and identity through distancing themselves from suprahuman guidance and relying on humanistic foundations. In this path, human self-alienation was seriously taken into account, especially by existentialist philosophers. However, the complicated, unfathomable depth of human truth prevented the vigorous self-foundational thoughts from pursuing appropriate and sublime purposes of the human, and once more revealed the importance and necessity of the human’s need to take refuge in the divine knowledge. The article at hand adopts an analytical-citation analysis method to first show the unfinished efforts of existential thinkers in unraveling the mystery of human self-alienation and then, using the qur’ānic teachings, try to find the answer to its main question on the real self of the human and the instances of his self-alienation, and provide the qur’ānic solutions such as invocation, imploration, prayer, and repentance to stay away from that self-alienation.
Karimi Vala, M. R., & Kamali Nasab, M. A. (2019). An Investigation of the Existential Self-Alienation through a Qur’ānic Approach. Philosophy of Religion, 16(1), 111-131. doi: 10.22059/jpht.2019.260002.1005570
MLA
Mohammad Reza Karimi Vala; Mohammad Ali Kamali Nasab. "An Investigation of the Existential Self-Alienation through a Qur’ānic Approach", Philosophy of Religion, 16, 1, 2019, 111-131. doi: 10.22059/jpht.2019.260002.1005570
HARVARD
Karimi Vala, M. R., Kamali Nasab, M. A. (2019). 'An Investigation of the Existential Self-Alienation through a Qur’ānic Approach', Philosophy of Religion, 16(1), pp. 111-131. doi: 10.22059/jpht.2019.260002.1005570
VANCOUVER
Karimi Vala, M. R., Kamali Nasab, M. A. An Investigation of the Existential Self-Alienation through a Qur’ānic Approach. Philosophy of Religion, 2019; 16(1): 111-131. doi: 10.22059/jpht.2019.260002.1005570