Principles of founding the humanities on religious texts
Abstract
"Humanities" refers to the group of scientific achievements in which by taking advantage of the four methods of revelation, wisdom, intuition and experience in human nature, his function and requirements as a rational and divine creature in the personal and social field could provide moral and spiritual growth, excellence and perfection for him in this world and bliss in the hereafter. On the other hand, providing basic and strategic approaches in the field of humanities is one of the main areas of religious concern which dominated by secular and non-religious ideas on many levels and have proposed a system of humanities that is just based on experience and observation methods in human nature, his function and needs as provides to an evolved animal only conditions of more welfare, comfort and enjoyment of worldly pleasures.
From this perspective, the human reduce to the level of evolved animal and collapses his needs to the material needs of this world.
The author in this paper attempts to express different views on the definition of science, checks three common definitions about human that include: 1. rational animal 2. living theologians 3. evolved animals. Then, offers both religious and secular definitions of Humanities. Three cases in characteristics of secular Humanities are including: 1. No attention to metaphysics 2. The collapse of moral values 3. Separate humanities from the realm of religion. Also referred to four common views in explaining the relationship between science and religion that emphasizes in the idea of thinkers such as Ian Barbour; exploring two main reasons for need to build the humanities on religious texts which are: 1. Comprehensive definition of man in religious texts; 2. inclusion range of religion than the humanities. This paper describes beside the current state of humanities, on an analytical and critical look insisting the claim that this kind of sciences, due to its unique way on experience and feeling, comes out of the their due direction, and offers material structure of the human, world and human ecosystem. Also due to the possibility of deriving the humanities from religious texts and presenting comprehensive image by the religion in this field, humanities should return to its original position and organize its structure with inspiring the teachings of religion.