Allameh Tabatabai and Closeness to Mystical Principles in Explaining Sensory Perception

Perception issues are one of the most important topics in epistemology in various philosophical schools in the recent period, Allameh Tabatabai offered a new perspective on perception, which is based on specific principles and with specific results. According to Allameh, epistemology is based on intuition of rational truths but because of communicate with the Material preliminaries It is called Imaginary knowledge.

The present article is a theoretical research, so in this article, the library research method has been used. The steps in this method are determining the problem, formulating a brief and detailed plan, referring and collecting sources and information, writing and summarizing, analyzing and processing data, and presenting the desired result. Therefore, the focus of this article is on library research methods. According to this method, after preparing the research plan, various sources have been collected from existing libraries and software, then the detailed research plan is prepared and its important chapters are identified. Then, various philosophical and mystical sources are referred and research papers are prepared. Then, the final analysis and writing of different chapters of the article are performed and the desired results are inferred and argued during the research. . Based on this method, Allameh's view on the issue of sensory perception has been explained. Also, the analytical-comparative method has been compared with the view of mystics on this issue, and the closeness of Allameh's view to mystics has been proven in terms of principles.

Allameh Tabatabai has moved against other philosophers in explaining the quality of sensory perception. Famous philosophers explained sensory perception using the external nature of objects whose imagination are produced in the mind, but Allameh explained the nature of sensory perception without using it. In this particular view, Allameh Tabatabai has crossed philosophical principles and approached special mystical principles. According to Allameh, in his view, close to mystical principles, he has not interpreted the universe according to the levels of existence. Rather, he has explained the universe with the theory of the emergence and ventricle of the existence. In this theory, Allameh, like mystics, has spoken about the inclusion and encirclement of existential worlds and their presence together. This proves the closeness of Allameh's view to the mystical view Contrary to the philosophical view, Allameh Tabatabai discusses the precedence of present knowledge, which is one of the foundations of Allameh's epistemology in the realization of sensory perception, and it can be considered as arising from the same view of Allameh's mystical ontology. The popular view considers nature as the mediator of perception, which is the criterion of the correspondence between the mind and the outside. According to Allameh, the beings of the higher world belong to the sensory perceptions, which are the cause of these material and natural beings and have all their perfections. According to Allameh, the sensory perception of the material world is the same as the presence perception of the reality of these objects in the higher world. Allameh's view is close to mystical intuition in this respect.

Allameh Tabatabai has a special point of view in explaining sensory perception. In this view, it has crossed the common philosophical foundations and approached the mystical foundations in ontology and epistemology