This article explores how the Islamic world views the mental reality of human beings, pointing out the strong differences that emerge when compared to the Western world. The authors compare the Bible and the Koran, analyze a number of written sources and interview people of Islamic origin. It becomes evident that the West has always been influenced by the belief that original sin exists and therefore man is an innately wicked creature. This leads one to think that the reality of humans is one of scission and of conflict between good and evil, corresponding respectively to reason and irrationality. This type of thinking, evidently, does not allow us to carry out research into the human mind. In the Koran, instead, original sin is forgiven, and human reality is not viewed as split, offering the Islamic world the premises for carrying out research into the mental reality of humans, something, however, it has not done. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

L'Islam: un pensiero diverso sulla realtà umana / Carnevali, Rossella; FIORI NASTRO, Paolo. - In: IL SOGNO DELLA FARFALLA. - ISSN 1121-0664. - STAMPA. - 16:1(2007), pp. 24-39.

L'Islam: un pensiero diverso sulla realtà umana

CARNEVALI, ROSSELLA;FIORI NASTRO, Paolo
2007

Abstract

This article explores how the Islamic world views the mental reality of human beings, pointing out the strong differences that emerge when compared to the Western world. The authors compare the Bible and the Koran, analyze a number of written sources and interview people of Islamic origin. It becomes evident that the West has always been influenced by the belief that original sin exists and therefore man is an innately wicked creature. This leads one to think that the reality of humans is one of scission and of conflict between good and evil, corresponding respectively to reason and irrationality. This type of thinking, evidently, does not allow us to carry out research into the human mind. In the Koran, instead, original sin is forgiven, and human reality is not viewed as split, offering the Islamic world the premises for carrying out research into the mental reality of humans, something, however, it has not done. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
2007
religione; realtà umana; psichiatria
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L'Islam: un pensiero diverso sulla realtà umana / Carnevali, Rossella; FIORI NASTRO, Paolo. - In: IL SOGNO DELLA FARFALLA. - ISSN 1121-0664. - STAMPA. - 16:1(2007), pp. 24-39.
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