Kant and Zarathustra مقاله

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Kant and Zarathustra Bahram Tusi In this article, after mentioning similar topics and issues in the Avesta and in ancient Greek philosophy, it will be demonstrated through historical documents and evidence (mainly the writings of ancient historians such as Herodotus, Xenophon, and others) that the philosophers of the ancient era in the West were heavily influenced by the Avesta. Ancient Iranian philosophy generally begins with the book of the Avesta and the teachings of Zarathustra, the prophet of the monotheistic religion of the Iranians, and it rapidly spreads throughout the vast empire of Iran (from Asia Minor—present-day Turkey—to India and the borders of China) and penetrates seas and centers of government. 1 Second, the expansion of Zoroaster's divine philosophy of truth, honesty, and righteousness in Greece, and the arrival of copies of the Avesta into the hands of the philosophers and thinkers of that era, and their connections and travels to Iran and other regions of the Orient, which were indeed utilized and attended to in the best possible way; and as evidence shows, the principles and foundations of Greek philosophy, due to these influences, were placed on the basis of Iranian divine thought and truth, correctness, honor, duty, justice-seeking, and ethics, and until two or three centuries ago, philosophy proceeded along this path. From the era of the flourishing of Greek civilization, meaning about five centuries before Christ, the time of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and others, based on what was said and the influences that were shown, divine morality and metaphysical issues cast a shadow over the thoughts of Western humans and over philosophy.