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In the Name of God
How have different societies treated researchers during history?
We have
prepared the following article by reviewing Professor Mosavi's
scientific and philosophical booklets which briefly explains the path of
some scientists and researchers in life in order to try to respond to
the above question.
Which
scientist and which era should we discuss? Should we discuss Xenophanes?
Or should we talk about the life of Ghazali? Or should we discuss
Stewart, the British philosopher, or Einstein, Hegel or Kant?
We mention
these names but do not have the intention to confirm the viewpoints and
opinions of any of the mentioned philosophers. We only aim to discuss
how the societies of their times treated them.
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In a society where most people embrace science with their hearts, scientists will be highly respected. Wherever there is humanity and justice, people act righteously in this regard. But if there is no humanity and justice, the truth will be destroyed and feelings will rule.
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We look at the life of Kant, the famous German
philosopher of the 18th century. He is considered one of the
high-ranking philosophers of Europe and the Europeans highly believe in
his philosophy and consider him one of the greatest philosophers of the
world and at the level of Aristotle and Pluto.
A European scientist says the following about Kant's
scientific greatness:
Kant is as strong as a mountain where philosophy is
concerned.
This is how great they considered him to be. The reason
for this is his criticism and the distinction he made between
the sensible and the intelligible perspectives in
philosophy. For this reason he was very highly respected. This is in
spite of his opposition to some viewpoints of other great philosophers.
As for Divine
Philosophers who have endangered their bodies and souls to secure
the doctrines of Tawhid
(The Oneness of God) and Nabuwat
(The Prophethood) and
Wilayat
(The authority invested in the Prophet and the Ahlul Bayt
as representatives of Almighty Allah on this earth)
and Ismat
(The innocence of our Imams) in the world from the beginning of
their lives forever; how were they treated?
One of these great philosophers who lived in the 17th
century was
Sadr ad-Din Muhammad Shirazi
also called Mulla Sadra. How was he
treated? How much value did the people of his time give this great man
with all his knowledge, whose philosophy was accepted by the East and
West as a principal? Why was he forced to migrate from Isfahan, which
was the place where he received his knowledge from, and leave behind the
entire inheritance of his father, and secretly flee to Murcheh Kharan in
Isfahan? He then traveled to Mashhad and on the way met Sheikh Bahaie
and Shah Abbas. Later he went to Shiraz and taught at the
Allah Werdi Khan School. Why did he travel from one caravan to another
until he reached the city of Qum and spent many years of his life there
and finally in a low populated and unknown village outside the city of
Qum called Kahak? There he initiated the composition of his main
work,
his philosophical and theological summa, al-Hikma al-muta‘aliya
fi-l-asfar al-‘aqliyya al-arba‘a (Transcendent wisdom of the four
journeys of the intellect), popularly known as al-Asfar al-arba‘a
(The Four
Journeys).
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Did such a great
person with all his scientific works deserve to be treated
in such a way and be forced to continually migrate from one
place to another? |
Nowadays
do we truly value scientists as we should?
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