Philosophical Analysis of the Role of Faculties of Estimation and Imagination in Satan's Glamorization

Glamorizing a false behavior in the mind and vision of an individual is one of Satan's strategies to deceive and mislead us. The fundamental question is, what happens in the human cognitive system so that something ugly and unpleasant looks to them as beautiful, attractive and correct? The answer to this question should be sought in the stimulation of man's intrinsic faculties and the stimulation of his overwhelming emotions by Satan. The role of the two faculties of "estimation" and "imagination", one of which has a perceptive function and the other an acting function, is prominent. The estimation, as the king of animal powers, by conquering the creative faculty, plays the main role in glamorizing falsehood. Satan, as an external enemy, uses seven methods to deceive and seduce people, in all of which the two powers of estimation and imagination are abused. These seven methods are as follows: considering ostensible causes independent from the Real Cause, exciting emotions and feelings, stimulating desire and the sense of pleasure-seeking in human, justifying and making excuses for unworthy deeds, disrupting the cognitive system with sophistry and fallacy, taking advantage of psychological deficiencies and disorders, showing falsehood as insignificant. These techniques are also used by the external enemy in cognitive warfare. In this research, the role of the two forces of estimation and imagination in Satan's glamorization has been explored with a rational analytical method, analyzing the Quranic examples.