An analysis of Martyr Motahari's Critical Approach to Kant's Foundations concerning the Relationship between Faith and Intellectual Practice

The issue of religious science has received agreement and disagreement from domestic researchers in recent years, and those who agree do not share a single attitude either. Two approaches can be mentioned in this regard: religious science in the context of Islamic culture, tradition, and civilization and inclusivist religious science based on reason and narration. Although there are things in common between these two perspectives, they have different principles, components, and results. The first perspective regards religious science as return to Islamic tradition and civilization in earlier ages, and finds revival of that civilization equal to revival of religious science. This perspective considers novel Western science as absolutely contradictory to the Islamic worldview, and holds that it will have no particular effect on the modern Islamic civilization. The second perspective, on the other hand, is focused on the belief that religious science will be one of the key elements in the modern Islamic civilization and that novel Western science will also be effective on this civilization. By generalizing the religious validity of reason from abstract to semi-abstract reason, the latter view also approves and acknowledges empirical data. In this research, the capacity of each of these two approaches in development of the modern Islamic civilization will be mentioned with an analytical-compar