An analysis on human essence from the view point of psychology and Quran

Knowing human being is a necessary need and one the basic conditions of providing individual and social happiness of human. This acquaintance has been always faced with many difficulties. The root of this difficulties and conflicts arises from complication of human nature from one side, and the variation and non-fixation of research methods concerning human existence from the other side. In this article the attitudes of psychology (as one the scientific fields) about human essence considering its different approaches (such as behaviorism, psychoanalysis, epistemology and existentialism) has been evaluated. Psychology tries to provide new approaches for human-being through using many methods and techniques such as observational method, chronical and paraphrasing experiments, interview, questionnaire, statistics techniques and etc…. The author also tries to provide the attitudes and approaches of Islamic thinkers about human-being essence which are derived from Islamic religious texts and rational methods.