Document Type : ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER

Authors

1 PhD Student in Department of Education and Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University (Central Tehran Branch), Tehran, Iran

2 Associate Prof. in Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding Author)

3 Associate Prof. in Department of Philosophy of Education, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

4 Assistant Prof. in Department of Education and Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University (Central Tehran Branch), Tehran, Iran

10.22034/imjpl.2023.15555.1083

Abstract

SUBJECT AND OBJECTIVES: The present study has been conducted with the aim of getting to know the most important application of self-knowledge from the perspective of Allameh Tabatabai and Henri Bergson with a comparative view.
METHOD AND FINDING: The results of this research, which was carried out with a descriptive-analytical, comparative and inferential method, show that Allameh Tabatabai and Henri Bergson, prominent philosophers of the East and the West, by providing a solution to one of the most important challenges of modern man, propose a new and deep look for man to return to himself. In the first step, this research has addressed two areas of thinking in the knowledge of the self and, in the most general look at the components of the incorporeality of the self, the relationship between the soul and the body, the change in the self and the soul as the main agent of perception in the opinions and thoughts of Allameh Tabatabai and Bergson with a comparative view. The data collection tool was MAXQDA software, which was used to increase the accuracy of data coding and categorization.
CONCLUSION: According to the obtained results, Allameh Tabatabai considered the knowledge of God to be the most important result and the final goal of self-knowledge, and Bergson, looking intuitively at the soul and from another angle, introduced creative evolution as the best result of this knowledge.

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