Challenges Facing Education and Cultivation of Philosophical Thinking Ability in Iran

Despite the fact that philosophical education has a long and bright history in Iran and also enjoys matchless resources in terms of content, it has failed to address modern issues and needs to be updated. This article seeks to study and evaluate the challenges facing the education of philosophy in Iran. six major challenges have been selected and studied in this research. Some of these challenges arise from the confrontation between the culture and ideas of the Islamic civilization and the modern culture and civilization and its novel issues. New perceptions of philosophy are one of the challenges facing the issue of philosophy education in Iran as well as Islamic nations. Furthermore, another part of the challenges stems from intra-cultural dialogues and differences over the status of philosophy in Islamic thoughts. This difference is highlighted when we want to make all teenagers and young people learn philosophy based on a modern education system that occurs in formal and public education. Some Islamic schools of thought are diametrically opposed to philosophy and others embrace it; they consider philosophy as a systematic study of general and fundamental questions which is not for a public engagement. This article seeks to present suggestions to overcome the challenges facing philosophy for all.