o Infer the Rules of Avicenna’s Philosophy Regarding “Gender and Practical Intellect”
Document Type : Research Paper
Author: Narjes Roodgar
Assistant professor at “The Philosophy and Mystics Department” of Al-Mustafa International University, Researcher at the Research Institute for Women and Family Studies, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran.
Abstract
This paper aims to indicate the relation of gender and practical intellect based on Avicenna’s philosophical principles. Different definitions and aspects of practical intellect, along with the definitions of gender and their submission to the rules and problems of Avicenna’s Philosophy, would be regarded as the extention of Sinavi wisdom in the issue of gender. To achieve this purpose the analytical method has been applied and following aspects evaluated: 1. Relation of gender and practical intellect based on principles regarding practical intellect as director of willing deed; 2. Cooperative states of soul and body in terms of gender and practical intellect 3. The relationship between soul and its faculties and the role of gender in it 4. The process of the formation of behavior with reference to gender 5. Gender and the factors of the perfection of practical intellect 6. Inferring relation of gender and practical intellect as perceptive faculty 7. Gender and knowledge related to practical intellect spatially Ethics. Studies show the influence of gender not in a general and absolute way, but in a partial and conditional way on different fields of practical intellect.
Keywords: Gender ,Practical intellect ,Avicenna’s Philosophy ,Ethics
Investigating the Historicity of Women's Rights in Verstehend Theology
Author; Narjes Roodgar
Assistant professor at “The Philosophy and Mystics Department” of Al-Mustafa International University, Researcher at the Research Institute for Women and Family Studies, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran.
Abstract
The verstehend theology is a theoretical project of Mojtahed Shabestari, which tries to present a new method in reading religious texts based on philosophical hermeneutics. Historicity, as a side of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics, is the most important pillar of verstehend theology in dealing with religious texts. Islamic law, including women’s rights, is one of the most important subjects that will have different applications under the influence of the interpretation approach. Women’s rights in Islam are some jurisprudential chapters about women. Basing law on Islamic jurisprudence and Sharia will have special applications in the field of hermeneutics and interpretation of the text. Apart from these requirements, the verstehend theology only pursues the historicity of human and understanding in women’s rights. In addition to suffering from relativism, there are two important basic problems in verstehend theology, which also extends to his version of women’s rights. Is. At this time, different theological and anthropological foundations on which Islamic Sharia is based suggest a different path in legal issues, including women’s rights. This points out the inconsistency of the verstehend theology approach in this issue with Islamic principles.
Keywords: Historicity,Philosophical Hermeneutics, Verstehend Theology, Women’s Rights
