Journal of Razavi Culture

Abstract Recognizing the status of man and studying his various dimensions and characteristics is one of the central issues in the teachings of divine religions, especially Islam and human schools, and many efforts and strategies have been made to reach him for his ultimate bliss based on dignity and esteem. Dignity means honor, esteem and venerable, that is the subject of discussion and confrontation  between Islam and human sciences. The aim of this study was to review the dimensions and effects of human dignity from Imam Riḍā's viewpoint and psychology, using library documents and resources and descriptive-analytic method of content analysis type, to examine the human dignity from the standpoint of both perspectives.
 The results of this study shows that from Imam Reza’s viewpoint, the origin of human dignity is inherent and dependent on the divine spirit and has a spiritual and transcendent orientation, and its aim is to reach the Divine proximity and be the caliph of Allah on the earth, which through the centrality of God's servants, comes from potentiality to actuality. But in psychology, self-esteem is derived from inward and outward factors, its origins are needs (shortcomings), and its purpose is to meet the needs of the material environment and to flourish the human capacity for success and progress.

Abstract The debate is a dialogue for common understanding and is one of the ffecivemthods­ to explain and educate celestial teachings. It was used by Prophets and Imams(PBUH) while facing with controversial opinions. Because of the political-cultural situation and dictation ov votes happened at the time of Imam Reza, he performed debates with scientists and elders of several sects to prevent distortion of Islam. He avoided the damages of debate and continued dialogue to clarify the facts, a method that approached considerable results. The aim of this study was the damage assessment of debate based onImam Reza^,s debate schemes. The research has identified the damages of debate based on Imam Reza^,s debates using descriptive – analytical methods and extensive literature review. The results showedthe debate damages would be divided to two major types: the scientific damages (e.g. fallacy in the argument, relying on the non-shared principles, lacking of order and structure in argument, etc) and moral damages (e.g. violation of fairness, prejudice and emulate, personality assessments, etc).The results demonstrated he continued his debates using the rules and avoiding the damages, tried to guide and enlighten the audience and always won all of debates.