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Re-Hardwiring The Cultural And Philosophical Infrastructure Of Iran For A Better Management

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  • SAMIN REZAEI ∗

    (Atlas Energy Maad Co, Iran)

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The philosophy of pre-modern Iran dominated by Zoroastrianism before Islam played a more constructive role in social and individual advancement. However, destructive principles of Islam, as outlined below, have rendered cultural attributes and collective world views of the Iranian and other middle-eastern nations unprecedented detriments. Ancient Persia, once occupying most of the eastern hemisphere, surely has contributed a lot to the current human civilization through the early Mithraism, Zoroaster, and his life affirming philosophy and later through the works of its great philosophers and scientists before and after the inception of Islam. However, the Iran today, unlike far east nations, China and Japan which appreciated their cultural and philosophical bed rocks even in modern days, is undoubtedly on a deteriorating track which is very disappointing culturally, socially, and philosophically. We are relating these social and cultural setbacks after the advent of Islam to the dominance of Semitic philosophy and world view, totally unconquerable to costly attempts of the Iranian elite during history, over a more materialistic and life affirming philosophy of life from the ancient Persia. We studied ancient Iranian philosophy and world view through Zoroaster, Mithraism, Iranian Mythology, Iranian literature after the dominance of Islamic philosophy, current cultural paradigms, and compared them to the very outstanding attributes of the Islamic philosophy and found great support for our hypotheses of the two important but forgotten reasons accounting for cultural, economic, and social setbacks of the nation: 1. Taking philosophical bedrocks, cultural attributes, and historical roots regarding the nation’s collective world view for granted and replacing them with a rigid philosophy of life has thrust a cultural metamorphosis on the nation. 2. Various offenses of the neighboring nations from the Mongolians to Arabs and the Greek during history has changed the cultural and philosophical bed rocks of the nation.

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  • Samin Rezaei ˆ—, 2017. "Re-Hardwiring The Cultural And Philosophical Infrastructure Of Iran For A Better Management," International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Dr. Mohammad Hamad Al-khresheh, vol. 3(6), pages 275-284.
  • Handle: RePEc:apa:ijhass:2017:p:275-284
    DOI: 10.20469/ijhss.3.20004-6
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