Hamid Talebzadeh and Mahmoud Morvarid on “Allameh Tabatabai’s Theory of Constructed Perceptions”

The Scientific Association of Philosophy at the University of Tehran presents: Lectures by Dr. Talebzadeh and Dr. Mahmoud Morvarid, titled “Allameh Tabatabai’s Theory of Constructed Perceptions”; Monday, 16 May, Kamal Hall, Faculty of Literature, University of Tehran, 3:00 PM.

In the sixth article of his book *The Principles of Philosophy and the Method of Realism*, Allameh Tabatabai opens a new chapter in the discussion of constructed perceptions (*iʿtibāriyyāt*), which is one of his philosophical innovations. By expanding the application of constructed perceptions, he introduces a specific meaning of it into ethics and places moral judgments under the category of constructed perceptions. Thus, by asserting the priority of “ought” over “good” and “evil,” he locates the foundations of moral judgments in the principles from which the “ought” is issued by the agent. The scope of the discussion of constructed perceptions, of course, does not only include ethics; it also has consequences and implications for metaphysical discussions. Over the past few decades, the topic of constructed perceptions has sparked many debates from the very beginning. Many interpreted it as implying the relativity of moral good and evil and criticized it, while some considered it a basis for founding the human sciences. Dr. Talebzadeh, a faculty member of the Philosophy Department at the University of Tehran, and Dr. Mahmoud Morvarid, a faculty member of the Analytic Philosophy Group at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, also have different approaches to this topic.

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