Human Ontology from a Religious Perspective: A Case Study of Fakhr Razi`s View

Fakhr Razi has presented a religious view about human ontology by analyzing Quranic verse. Some of his ontological principles may be referred to as: man is the most noble creature on the Earth; the essence of man is an immaterial soul which undergoes gradual changes in properties; human soul from the beginning enjoys some God-given inclinations and predispositions which may lead to the actualization of good or evil qualities; human life has three stages: before birth, after birth and after death; man holds a fourfold relationships with God, with the self, with others and with nature of which the first must be the dominant one; considering the three stages of creation has been aimed to direct man to the origin and the end of the universe. The paper has studied Fakhr Razi`s view on anthropological qualities of human being as understood in religion with a descriptive-analytical method.