Comparative Study of Man from Rumi and Spinoza’s Points of View

Man is a creature who has excited so many intellectuals' attention to itself since times immemorial, and has been examined and analyzed from various aspects. Besides, a host of re-known mystics and philosophers have considered and overseen human being over the years. However, it is almost difficult to reach a definition concluding literal and verbal differences of the views. It seems necessary, though, to examine and approximate intellectuals’ attitudes in this regard. In order to determine the concept of human being, the researcher has aimed to deal with human strengths and weaknesses studied and considered by well-known and outstanding icons such as Spinoza and Rumi. In addition, some similarities between Rumi's “perfect man” and Spinoza's “rational man” have been viewed and analyzed. As a final effort, by referring to these two scholars, this study  has intend to depict how the powerless man surrounded by passion and carnal desires achieves virtue and fortune and wins the highest human rank