The Role of Aesthetics and Wisdom-Based Art

Khosropanah Dezfuli, Abdolhosain; Qomi, Mohammad

doi:10.22034/rph.2025.2048613.1091

The Role of Aesthetics and Wisdom-Based Art

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Abdolhosain Khosropanah Dezfuli ¹

Mohammad Qomi ²

¹ Professor, Department of Philosophy, Islamic Research Institute for Culture and Thought, Qom, Iran.

² Assistant Professor, Cultural and Artistic Management Department, Dar Al-Hikmah Institute of Higher Education, Qom, Iran.

10.22034/rph.2025.2048613.1091

Abstract

Beauty is sometimes a feeling and sometimes a perception of pleasure and inner satisfaction that naturally emerges and manifests itself at every level of human existence. The beauty of a person depends on the proportion of his similarity and closeness to the Almighty God, which is achieved through hikma, that is, by cultivating the intellect through sound knowledge and righteous action, and by making the intellect dominate over illusion, imagination, and the body. The result is the enjoyment of health at the level of the body, beauty and art at the level of imagination, moral virtues at the level of fancy, and finding a way to the inner world at the level of intellect and beyond. The connection of hikma with science and art means that the scientist and artist base their knowledge, insight, motivation, tendency, character, method, and action on hikma. The theory of the revolutionary system, which is proposed in the statement of the second step of the revolution and has three pillars of self-development, socialization, and civilization, will be based on the universal and innate slogans of the Islamic Revolution, that is, it will be derived from hikma. Considering the general public's susceptibility to imaginary matters, the hikmii art has an unparalleled importance and role in directing the people of society towards the three aforementioned pillars. In order to achieve this, the necessity of creating hikmii governance becomes more and more apparent.

Keywords

Art

Hikma

Hikmii Art

Beauty

Hikmii Governance

Revolutionary System

Second Step of the Revolution

Subjects

The Wisdom of Islamic Art

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