From Allama Tabatabaee's Epistemology to Multidimensional (Multifaceted) Thinking in Aesthetic Education with a Glance at the Holy Quran

In divine teachings and Quranic interpretations, cognition, its different dimensions and the issued of beauty and its spread in man’s existential dimensions have received attention on different occasions in different situations so that a profound and inseparable link can be observed between cognition and beauty.
Having deeply dipped into the Holy Quran and its teachings, Allama Tabatabaee, a great Shiite commentator, considers attention to sensory (audiovisual) perception as the introduction and origin of acquired science (imaginations) and reckons the heart to equal the faculty of wisdom and the origin of acknowledgement and reasoning. This type of glance at the instrument of cognition is the main basis of a specific dimension of training called “Aesthetic Education”. In the present study, conducted in the descriptive-analytical method by referring to first hand and library resources especially “Tafsirolmizan”, some of Allama Tabatabaee’s epistemological and Aesthetic views and relation between them are defined and a specific kind of thinking in educational objectives called “multidimensional thinking” in Aesthetic Education is discussed the result of which is simultaneous attention to reason and thinking, external and internal feeling, affection, faith and truthfulness.
Attention to the strengthening of training of learners’ sensory qualities and Aesthetic taste should, therefore; be put on the top of the educational system programs in parallel with training and strengthening of common sense , attention to safe sound heart and nature.