SPIRITUALITY IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT OF SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR

Spirituality for Seyyed Hossen Nasr is an inner reality
that becomes a religious central in Islam. It is the esoteric
dimension hidden in the reality of exoteric Islam. That view on
spirituality brings Nasr to the philosophical thought that cannot be
separated from religious metaphysical doctrine. Nasr argues that
philosophy is more than just a ratio but also the activity of intellect
that can reach the meta-cosmic nature to find the essence of truth
namely the universal and eternal truth that lies behind the physical
and relative truth. The philosophical efforts to find this truth are a
combination of the optimizing potential of reason and intellectual
intuition. Nasr refers to h}ikmah or wisdom as a kind of philosophy
that combines logic and intellectual intuition. That philosophical
view brings Nasr on a dualistic view of nature which not only has a
cosmic dimension as such but also has a meta-cosmic dimension.
This dualistic view is his fundamental reason in formulating the
concept of metaphysical cosmology as a solution to the crisis of
modern science that has caused a variety of ecological damage due
to the secular vision.