Anthropology in the Political Utterance of Mo’tazeleh and Asha’ereh

The purpose of the present study is to review the viewpoints of two theological schools known as Asha’ereh and Mo’tazeleh about one of anthropological principles called “free will”. The method of study was descriptive analysis and the results indicated that Mo’tazeleh’s adherence to the principle of favor, divine justice and its balance with free will and punishment in terms of compatibility with human free will, the necessity of not attributing evil acts to God, and admitting God’s omnipotence and power in creating human acts connote that free will cannot be attributed to Mo’tazeleh. However, Asha’ereh assume that human acts are definitely attributed to God they obey divine will. They hold that even classifying human acts into good and bad has a divine origin so good and evil acts have a religious dimension and it will not logically be justifiable and acceptable.