Tendenzen der Westwahrnehmung bei iranischen Intellektuellen

In Iranian intellectual history, the first attempt to deal with Western philosophy critically was made by two representatives of the religious institution, Moḥammad Ḥoseyn Ṭabāṭabāʾī and Mortażā Moṭahharī (1902-1979 and 1920-1980, respectively). Ṭabāṭabāʾī, in the early 1950s, tried to formulate a philosophically grounded answer to the influx of Western philosophical teachings, notably Marxism and positivism, in his text 'The Principles of Philosophy and the Method of Realism' that became supplemented by a commentary, designed to make the main text understandable to a wider public, by Ṭabāṭabāʾī's student Moṭahharī. Both scholars deal with modern Western philosophy on the basis of Mullā Ṣadrā's (d. 1640) ontological realism.