"A comparative study of the concept of rationality in the thoughts of Max Weber and Shahid Motahari and its political consequences"

Subject Areas : Intellectual explorations

seyed amin تقوی فر ¹ , Hamed Ameri Golestani ² , Shiva Jalal Por ³ , Hamed Mohagheghnia ⁴

1 - Department of Political Sciences, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, iran
2 - Department of Political Science, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran (corresponding author)
3 - Department of Political Science, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
4 - Department of Political Science, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

Received: 2023-02-20 Accepted : 2023-02-24 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: "Rationality", "Max Weber", Intellect", "Shahid Motahari", "Epistemology,

Abstract :

The stable core of the thoughts of Max Weber and Shahid Motahari is rationality. Rationality in Weber's thoughts has built something based on Kantian subjectivism by passing Parsonsian reading. It means that man should not make the reality in accordance with the reality, but should falsify and validate it; Because there is no previous cultural phenomenon in the fields of thought and ethics; Also, rationality in the thoughts of Martyr Motahari includes broad aspects such as being a revelation and a follower of the Sharia, which uses various tools such as experience, revelation, narration, and reason, and from where it has been able to provide comprehensiveness to the various social dimensions of the revolution. It is the ideology of the Islamic revolution. In this article, the qualitative research method is used and the data analysis method is descriptive. The result obtained is that rationality in Weber's thoughts can be understood and analyzed based on credit perceptions and not real perceptions in the intellectual system of Shahid Motahari.