Investigating the difference between human nature and instinct from the perspective of verses and traditions
Subject Areas : Quarterly Sabzevaran Fadak
1 - tehran
Keywords: Difference, nature, instinct, verses and traditions,
Abstract :
One of the most challenging issues of anthropology throughout the history of human life is the identity crisis. which is also caused by the lack of all-round knowledge of man regarding his different dimensions. The following article seeks to clarify the difference between nature and human instinct as two developmental characteristics from the perspective of the verses and traditions of Islamic texts with a descriptive, narrative and interpretative method. The present research shows that man has a composite personality of two developmental goals, nature and instinct. Nature is the divine dimension, the unconscious and the ultimate goal of human perfection. which constitutes his true, intrinsic and trans-animal identity. In the language of verses and hadiths, nature is mentioned as Islam, knowledge of God and monotheism, which has characteristics such as universality, contemporaneity, non-acquired, constant, innocuousness and error.Another characteristic of human development is instinct, which is an animal dimension, a tool, and a prelude to human perfection. His vision and tendencies are limited to the needs of the material and animal dimension like animals. Based on this, the cause of the identity crisis in man should be sought in the confusion of the two mentioned developmental goals and his lack of attention and reasoning in the facts of Quranic self-knowledge.
