İNSANLIĞIN ORTAK DİNÎ TEMELİ: FITRAT
THE COLLECTIVE RELIGIOUS BASIS OF HUMANITY: CREATION/FITRAH

Summary/Abstract: Man is a socio-cultural being. In this sense Man is a human being with his environment; that is, he acquires the status of being a real human as a result of his gains from the natural and socio-cultural environment where he exists. Besides, humans are endowed with many biological, mental and spiritual abilities, they do not acquire them later. Man also has innate moral-religious abilities and one of them is “creation/fıtrah”. According to a great majority of Islamic scholars, creation is the consciousness of existence and uniqueness of God that is temperamental in all human beings while Man is a believing being as well as a thinking one in the common agreement of psychologists and psychologists of Religion. This feature of believing is inherent but the framework of this ability has not been determined yet. On the other hand, cultural anthropology asserts that Man acquires moral and intellectual characteristics within the socio-cultural environment where he exists and therefore Man does not have any universal or common ethics and religious values. This paper will discuss the relationship between the Human nature and belief and dwell upon whether there is a moral-religious property being innate in Man or not, and if there is, what the characteristics of this property will be.

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