Journal of Social Theories of Muslim Thinkers

Document Type : Research Article / Original Article

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1 Director of the Department of Social Sciences, Razavi University of Islamic Sciences

2 Assistant Professor at Al-Mustafa International University Qom Iran

Abstract

The problem of mutual relationship between social factors and types of knowledge, which is called "social determination of knowledge", External objectivity is finding knowledge from a social point of view or the impression and identification that different human knowledge receives from social factors. The components of this mutual relationship include depth, degree, level, dominant factor and subject. Allameh Tabatabayi believes that apart from obvious, present, general theoretical knowledge and some general practical knowledge, the rest of knowledge is under the influence of biological, environmental, unseen and social cultural factors that this effect is contingent and does not even reach the stage of causation. The main focus of these epistemological developments is the credibility, especially the post-social credibility, which is completely socially determined. Max Scheler proposed the form and content of knowledge, which considers the content immune from social determination and considers only the form of knowledge to be socially determined. Of course, Allameh and Scheler both believe that there is no causality between the community of knowledge and the influence of the community is only to the extent necessary. According to Scheler's opinion, spiritual and real factors jointly determine knowledge. Of course, only the three forms of knowledge of religion, philosophy and science are targeted for determination. Therefore, the extract of Allameh's theory goes back to the discussion of validity and Scheler's theory of the form and content of knowledge.

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