Analysis of the thought of essentialist intellectuals against Pahlavi II modernity (case study of Seyed Ahmed Fardid and Seyed Hossein Nasr)

Subject Areas : City architect

khosro afzalian ^{1 *} , faeze amiri poua ² , iraj etisam ³ , mohsen tabasi ⁴

1 - PhD student of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
4 - Full Professor, Department of Architecture, Science and Research Unit, Azad Islamic University, Tehran.

Received: 2022-08-20 Accepted : 2022-08-20 Published : 2022-07-23

Keywords: modernity, Intellectuals, Pahlavi II, Fardid, Nasr,

Abstract :

The contemporary history of Iran, especially Pahlavi II, is full of political and social developments resulting from the intellectual currents and activity of intellectuals. Enlightenment is a product of the modern world. Therefore, it is possible to put forward the standard of typology of intellectuals based on modernity. The most important service of an intellectual to society is through his intellectual products. Therefore, knowing the thought of an intellectual is one of the necessities. Essentialist enlightened thinkers against modernity, who philosophically negate the entirety of modernity and envision another future, and point out any attempt to patch modernity with Eastern religions or culture as futile, put forward a type of discussion. Examining and analyzing the discourse of essentialist intellectuals against modernity is the subject of this research. And in this regard, the essentialist concepts against the modernity of Pahlavi II are examined by examining the thoughts of Fardid and Nasr. In the upcoming research, according to the interaction of the essentialist type against modernity with the thought of the mentioned intellectuals, the research method is logical reasoning. The indicators of the species mentioned in the thought of Ahmed Fardid and Nasr are the West, technology and the interaction of modernity with the West.