The Role of Faith in Building Ideology

Kamal Mass’oud Thabih

Summary
Seeking perfection - which is inseparable from man who tries to find his self and his real association - does only come under a universal vision, to which human reason appeal in founding an ideology that contributes to diagnosing the beginning and the end of his movement; because of the nature of the growing relationship between what exists and what should exist. Man cannot find his real identity and solve the cognitive question - where from, where to, and wherein - except under the existential and cognitive realism of the divine universal vision (faith), which in turn is considered as the basis for the construction of judgments, ethics, and law, and which reflects the firm coordination between the doctrinal dimension and the practical dimension. Hence, this article comes to shed light on the role of the divine universal vision (faith) in establishing the ideological vision by studying extraneous conceptual notions to form the cognitive orientation of the article through the two most important axes that are inseparable from all their joints: the universal vision and the ideological vision, and then to move on to discussing the universal vision issues, in terms of real theological issues; and then according to that, to divide the universal vision into divine and material visions. After that, we come to the generative role between the divine universal vision and the ideological vision. Then, we end the study with discussing the cognitive introduction and approach used in it.
 So, any way and any philosophy in life must be built - like it or not - on a particular type of belief, view, and evaluation of existence, and on a special type of interpretation and analysis. To each principle, there is a specific impression and a certain pattern of reflection on the universe and existence. And this is the basis and intellectual background of that principle. This basis and that background is usually called the "universal vision". Every one of religions, laws, principles and social philosophies depends on a particular universal vision, and all the goals that some principle proclaims and calls people to keep to, all the methods it assigns, all the obligations and forbidden acts that it issues, and all the responsibilities that it founds are not but essential and necessary consequences of the universal vision that forms the main basis for that principle.

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