A Critical Study of Jaspers` View on Philosophical Alienation with an Emphasis on Allameh Tabatabaie`s View

Alienation is one of the most important anthropological issues of the present age that any research on it requires a proper understanding of its philosophical and anthropological foundations. Using an analytical-critical approach, this paper critically examines Jaspers' view of philosophical alienation based on Allameh Tabatabai's view. The main question of the research is: regarding Allameh Tabatabai's point of view, what may be taken as the critiques of Jaspers' view on philosophical alienation? As seen in the findings of the research, Jaspers considers the most important type of alienation to be philosophical alienation, the origin of which is his confusion between the real awareness of encirclement existence and false awareness of it. the truth of existence and the truth of human and, therefore, and considering the two as one thing. In the process of philosophical self-alienation, the alienated, relying on such a false awareness has not referred to anything beyond himself in order to reach absolute existence by moving on those horizons. According to him, "philosophical faith" is the way to overcome philosophical alienation. According to Allameh Tabatabai's principles, firstly, Jaspers has confused the truth of existence with that of human being and considered these two as one. Secondly, when qualifying the truth of human being, he has contradicted, and thirdly, he has been unable to distinguish between true and credit perceptions and, finally, The method he uses (phenomenology) lacks the ability to analyze the problems of the soul. In contrast, Allameh Tabatabai considers the origin of alienation to be the forgetfulness of the self`s state of being pure relation