Professor Motahhari's Critical Encounter of the Western Approach to Social Science

Since Ayatollah Motahari was involved in the issues of "humanities" including "social science" and tried to find Islamic answers to its main questions, his unfinished path could be followed on the basis of his writings; their extension and continuation may end up to an approach in this regard. Therefore I have pursued "the criticism of Western social science", as one of the important branches of "Western humanities", in this article; and Motahhari's critical encounters with this science is explained in three sections: "epistemology", "ontology" and "normology". If we are posed, as the supporters of Islamic social science, what are the irremediable and irrecoverable "defects" and "deviations" of the Western social science which makes us create the approach of Islamic social science, we can mention a list of religious "criticisms" and "falsifiabilities", from the theoretical perspective of Motahhari, which are posed in this article. Therefore his perception of "the identity of Islamic social sicence" and also the relations between "humanities" and "Islam" are clarified to some extent.