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دین و نظم طبیعت
The current ecological crisis is a matter of urgent global concern, with solutions being sought on many fronts. In this book, Seyyed Hossein Nasr argues that the devastation of our world has been exacerbated, if not actually caused, by the reductionist view of nature that has been advanced by modern secular science. What is needed, he believes, is the recovery of the truth to which the great, enduring religions all attest; namely that nature is sacred.
Nasr traces the historical process through which Western civilization moved away from the idea of nature as sacred and embraced a world view which sees humans as alienated from nature and nature itself as a machine to be dominated and manipulated by humans. His goal is to negate the totalitarian claims of modern science and to re-open the way to the religious view of the order of nature, developed over centuries in the cosmologies and sacred sciences of the great traditions. Each tradition, Nasr shows, has a wealth of knowledge and experience concerning the order of nature. The resuscitation of this knowledge, he argues, would allow religions all over the globe to enrich each other and cooperate to heal the wounds inflicted upon the Earth.
Nasr traces the historical process through which Western civilization moved away from the idea of nature as sacred and embraced a world view which sees humans as alienated from nature and nature itself as a machine to be dominated and manipulated by humans. His goal is to negate the totalitarian claims of modern science and to re-open the way to the religious view of the order of nature, developed over centuries in the cosmologies and sacred sciences of the great traditions. Each tradition, Nasr shows, has a wealth of knowledge and experience concerning the order of nature. The resuscitation of this knowledge, he argues, would allow religions all over the globe to enrich each other and cooperate to heal the wounds inflicted upon the Earth.
520 pages
First published January 1, 1996
About the author
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
250 books744 followersSeyyed Hossein Nasr was born on April 7, 1933 (19 Farvadin 1312 A.H. solar) in Tehran into a family of distinguished scholars and physicians. His father, Seyyed Valiallah, a man of great learning and piety, was a physician to the Iranian royal family, as was his father before him. The name "Nasr" which means "victory" was conferred on Professor Nasr's grandfather by the King of Persia. Nasr also comes from a family of Sufis. One of his ancestors was Mulla Seyyed Muhammad Taqi Poshtmashhad, who was a famous saint of Kashan, and his mausoleum which is located next to the tomb of the Safavid king Shah Abbas, is still visited by pilgrims to this day.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, currently University Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University, Washington D.C. is one of the most important and foremost scholars of Islamic, Religious and Comparative Studies in the world today. Author of over fifty books and five hundred articles which have been translated into several major Islamic, European and Asian languages, Professor Nasr is a well known and highly respected intellectual figure both in the West and the Islamic world. An eloquent speaker with a charismatic presence, Nasr is a much sought after speaker at academic conferences and seminars, university and public lectures and also radio and television programs in his area of expertise. Possessor of an impressive academic and intellectual record, his career as a teacher and scholar spans over four decades.
Professor Nasr began his illustrious teaching career in 1955 when he was still a young and promising, doctoral student at Harvard University. Over the years, he has taught and trained an innumerable number of students who have come from the different parts of the world, and many of whom have become important and prominent scholars in their fields of study.
He has trained different generations of students over the years since 1958 when he was a professor at Tehran University and then, in America since the Iranian revolution in 1979, specifically at Temple University in Philadelphia from 1979 to 1984 and at the George Washington University since 1984 to the present day. The range of subjects and areas of study which Professor Nasr has involved and engaged himself with in his academic career and intellectual life are immense. As demonstrated by his numerous writings, lectures and speeches, Professor Nasr speaks and writes with great authority on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from philosophy to religion to spirituality, to music and art and architecture, to science and literature, to civilizational dialogues and the natural environment.
For Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the quest for knowledge, specifically knowledge which enables man to understand the true nature of things and which furthermore, "liberates and delivers him from the fetters and limitations of earthly existence," has been and continues to be the central concern and determinant of his intellectual life.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, currently University Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University, Washington D.C. is one of the most important and foremost scholars of Islamic, Religious and Comparative Studies in the world today. Author of over fifty books and five hundred articles which have been translated into several major Islamic, European and Asian languages, Professor Nasr is a well known and highly respected intellectual figure both in the West and the Islamic world. An eloquent speaker with a charismatic presence, Nasr is a much sought after speaker at academic conferences and seminars, university and public lectures and also radio and television programs in his area of expertise. Possessor of an impressive academic and intellectual record, his career as a teacher and scholar spans over four decades.
Professor Nasr began his illustrious teaching career in 1955 when he was still a young and promising, doctoral student at Harvard University. Over the years, he has taught and trained an innumerable number of students who have come from the different parts of the world, and many of whom have become important and prominent scholars in their fields of study.
He has trained different generations of students over the years since 1958 when he was a professor at Tehran University and then, in America since the Iranian revolution in 1979, specifically at Temple University in Philadelphia from 1979 to 1984 and at the George Washington University since 1984 to the present day. The range of subjects and areas of study which Professor Nasr has involved and engaged himself with in his academic career and intellectual life are immense. As demonstrated by his numerous writings, lectures and speeches, Professor Nasr speaks and writes with great authority on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from philosophy to religion to spirituality, to music and art and architecture, to science and literature, to civilizational dialogues and the natural environment.
For Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the quest for knowledge, specifically knowledge which enables man to understand the true nature of things and which furthermore, "liberates and delivers him from the fetters and limitations of earthly existence," has been and continues to be the central concern and determinant of his intellectual life.
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October 17, 2019
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از شروع دوران رنسانس، انسان عالم طبیعت رو صرفا به صورت یه ماده و فاقد هر گونه حیات و هر گونه شعور معرفی کرد و ثابت کرد که این عالم مثل یه ماشین مکانیکی عمل میکنه و برای مسلط شدن به اون، فقط کافیه زبانش و قانون هاش رو بفهمیم. زبان طبیعت زبان ریاضی شناخته شد. از این دوران به بعد، انسان شروع کرد به استفاده بی حد و مرز و بی قید و شرط از عالم طبیعت کرد و اون رو به طور کامل در خدمت امیال و آرزوهای خودش قرار داد. اما این دانش و این فهم از نظم طبیعت یک برداشت غلط و پر از خلاء بود. طبیعت یک پدیده زنده و ذی شعور و محل تجلی خلاقیت الهی ه. این فلسفه جدید و نتایج علمی و تکنولوژیکی ش باعث شد که انسان در مقابل عالم طبیعت و نظم طبیعت قرار بگیره و بر هم زدن این نظم طبیعت (مثل سوراخ کردن لایه اوزون توسط انسان، چیزی که تا پیش از دوران متجدد هیچ وقت اتفاق نیفتاده بود) باعث شد تا زندگی انسان متجدد از معنا تهی بشه. احساس پوچی، بیهودگی و بی معنایی، سرگردانی در عالم و افسردگی از ویژگی های بارز زندگی انسان مدرن شده و با زندگی مدرن در هم آمیخته و انسان برای فرار از این خلاء های عظیم در زندگی، هر روز بیشتر به مسیر اشتباه خودش ادامه میده و در واقع در یک چرخه باطل قرار گرفته. علت این پریشانی و سردرگمی در انسان مدرن، بریده شدن این انسان از تمام عوالم فرازمینی ه و انسانی که عالم طبیعت رو بر مبنای فلسفه مدرن عاری از هر گونه حیات میبینه، خودش رو هم روز به روز تنهاتر و بی پناه تر میبینه. کتاب تاکید میکنه که بحران محیط زیستی که انسان مدرن باهاش مواجه شده و این همه نابودی هایی که در طبیعت به وجود آورده، ریشه در بحران معنایی زندگی مدرن داره و در واقع بحران زندگی بیرونی، از بحران درونی نشات گرفته. این کتاب راهی رو پیش روی ما میذاره برای اینکه بفهمیم چه شد که انسان مدرن زاده شد و چه شد که داره به دست خودش زمین و محل زیستن خودش رو نابود میکنه.
کتاب رو برای دومین بار خوندم و بدون شک معتقدم بهترین کتابی هست که در تمام عمرم تا الان و تا همیشه خوندم. شاید حتی بتونم بگم زندگی من به قبل و بعد از خوندن این کتاب تقسیم میشه
از شروع دوران رنسانس، انسان عالم طبیعت رو صرفا به صورت یه ماده و فاقد هر گونه حیات و هر گونه شعور معرفی کرد و ثابت کرد که این عالم مثل یه ماشین مکانیکی عمل میکنه و برای مسلط شدن به اون، فقط کافیه زبانش و قانون هاش رو بفهمیم. زبان طبیعت زبان ریاضی شناخته شد. از این دوران به بعد، انسان شروع کرد به استفاده بی حد و مرز و بی قید و شرط از عالم طبیعت کرد و اون رو به طور کامل در خدمت امیال و آرزوهای خودش قرار داد. اما این دانش و این فهم از نظم طبیعت یک برداشت غلط و پر از خلاء بود. طبیعت یک پدیده زنده و ذی شعور و محل تجلی خلاقیت الهی ه. این فلسفه جدید و نتایج علمی و تکنولوژیکی ش باعث شد که انسان در مقابل عالم طبیعت و نظم طبیعت قرار بگیره و بر هم زدن این نظم طبیعت (مثل سوراخ کردن لایه اوزون توسط انسان، چیزی که تا پیش از دوران متجدد هیچ وقت اتفاق نیفتاده بود) باعث شد تا زندگی انسان متجدد از معنا تهی بشه. احساس پوچی، بیهودگی و بی معنایی، سرگردانی در عالم و افسردگی از ویژگی های بارز زندگی انسان مدرن شده و با زندگی مدرن در هم آمیخته و انسان برای فرار از این خلاء های عظیم در زندگی، هر روز بیشتر به مسیر اشتباه خودش ادامه میده و در واقع در یک چرخه باطل قرار گرفته. علت این پریشانی و سردرگمی در انسان مدرن، بریده شدن این انسان از تمام عوالم فرازمینی ه و انسانی که عالم طبیعت رو بر مبنای فلسفه مدرن عاری از هر گونه حیات میبینه، خودش رو هم روز به روز تنهاتر و بی پناه تر میبینه. کتاب تاکید میکنه که بحران محیط زیستی که انسان مدرن باهاش مواجه شده و این همه نابودی هایی که در طبیعت به وجود آورده، ریشه در بحران معنایی زندگی مدرن داره و در واقع بحران زندگی بیرونی، از بحران درونی نشات گرفته. این کتاب راهی رو پیش روی ما میذاره برای اینکه بفهمیم چه شد که انسان مدرن زاده شد و چه شد که داره به دست خودش زمین و محل زیستن خودش رو نابود میکنه.
کتاب رو برای دومین بار خوندم و بدون شک معتقدم بهترین کتابی هست که در تمام عمرم تا الان و تا همیشه خوندم. شاید حتی بتونم بگم زندگی من به قبل و بعد از خوندن این کتاب تقسیم میشه
July 17, 2016
"The environment crisis if before anything else a spiritual crisis"
"It is the secularized worldview that reduces nature to a purely material domain cut of from the world of the Spirit to be plundered at will for what is usually called human welfare, but which really means the illusory satisfaction of a never-ending greed without which consumer society would not exist."
"Unless man realizes his relativity in light of the Absolute, he is bound to absolutize himself and his opinions no matter how hard he tries to demonstrate an unintelligent humility vis-à-vis the animals and plants or nebulae and molecules."
"For the be truly human is to transcend the human. To be satisfied with the merely human is to fall ultimately below the human state."
"It is the secularized worldview that reduces nature to a purely material domain cut of from the world of the Spirit to be plundered at will for what is usually called human welfare, but which really means the illusory satisfaction of a never-ending greed without which consumer society would not exist."
"Unless man realizes his relativity in light of the Absolute, he is bound to absolutize himself and his opinions no matter how hard he tries to demonstrate an unintelligent humility vis-à-vis the animals and plants or nebulae and molecules."
"For the be truly human is to transcend the human. To be satisfied with the merely human is to fall ultimately below the human state."
November 5, 2018
Very valuable reading for me toward reimagination of interactive relationship with the natural world. Nasr develops this as "resacralization" (see the concluding chapter). Some of my favorite passages are in blog, e.g., http://dochorsetales.blogspot.com/201... .
November 22, 2019
Great book. Controversial in its antimodernist world view and rightfully turns off those who are plagued with techno optimism. The content requires some reflection to grasp however, and isn't obvious at a first reading unless you've been reading other books of a similar nature.
March 3, 2020
حفاظت از محیط زیست و حیوانات اگر بنا باشد به جایی برسد راهی جز راه حلِ ارائه شده در این کتاب نخواهد داشت و تجمع و اعتراض و آشغال جمع کردن و کارهایی از این دست بازی هستند نه بیشتر؛ جنگیدن با معلول ها هستند نه علت ها. باید با علتِ آسیب دیدن محیط زیست جنگید
November 24, 2008
All those sensitive to nature must read this work
December 9, 2013
it's amazing book for me, if there'a any download e-book of this book, i'm very happy about it.. this book is very impotent for me...
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