Sekularna i sveta racionalnost na ravni svjetospoznaje, upravljanja svijetom i uređenja svijeta
Secular and Sacred Rationality at the Level of World Cognition, World Governance and World Arrangement

Summary/Abstract: The fundamental question of this study is how sacred and secular interpretation of rationality is reflected on three levels: cognition of the world, world governance and world order. By applying the comparative method and a cognitive pattern, which is focused on recognizing the two interpretations of rationality in the thought of two engaged thinkers: one western and other eastern, the authors believe that Max Weber, in his secular interpretation of rationality, defines efficiency as its criteria, i.e. choosing the best means to achieve the goal, and that is a form of formal rationality that has emerged in the western civilization. This rationality is a reflection of the specific world cognition of the modern man who has unclothed the natural and social world from the meaning of sacred and has adorned it with secularism and democracy. However, Allame Tabatabayi gives a sacred interpretation of rationality. He believes that the criterion of rationality is harmonization with the authentic and sane innate nature of man. According to Allame Tabatabayi, innate rationality of the world of existence has a meaning, whereby man is obligated to govern and arrange the world on the basis of innate nature.

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