Maherb Hegel and author of "tyrant" .. Death miss Imam Abdel Fattah Imam

Imran Abdullah

The path of philosophy is paved with ideas, and although people doubt its ambiguity, it is a profession that needs to be taught and trained to have the capabilities to understand it. The Egyptian academic was Imam Abdel Fattah, Imam of one of them. He was an academic, translator and author. He enriched the Arabic library with more than 100 books.

And at the age of 85 years, and after a march of intellectual bus translated during the work of German philosopher Hegel, and supervised the series "the oldest" of the translations, which issued seventy of them, and supervised the translation of the Koblston Encyclopedia in the history of Western philosophy; died on Tuesday Imam Abdul Fattah Imam, Intellectuals and readers on social networking sites.

He also worked as a professor in the universities of Cairo, Mansoura, Kuwait, Tripoli, Sebha and others. The Union of Egyptian Writers, which he was a member of, issued a statement to Nayeh, describing his philosophical works and translations as helping hundreds of researchers and readers who Learn about his writings.

Imam was born in Sharkia in 1934. His father was a scholar of Al-Azhar University. He received his master's degree in literature in 1968 and his doctorate in honor of 1972.

The author of the book "The Tyrant" and "Women of Philosophers" translated the philosophy of history and the origins of the philosophy of truth and the manifestations of the spirit of Hegel, as well as "Lectures in the History of Philosophy", "Slavery of Women" and the translation of the "existentialism" of John Stuart Mill, and his explanation of the Danish philosopher Soren Kirkgard, Philosophical of Macquay.

"The backwardness of Eastern societies and Muslim societies is due to the authoritarian political system that has led people to a long time. The solution lies not in good moral behavior or in true religiosity, but in the emergence of an integrated human personality, All the rights of political rights are complete and undeniable, and recognized the value of the community and human dignity; good ethics and true religious results of a good political system, not vice versa.

In his book, Imam reviews examples of tyranny and the famous eastern despotism in which the ruler stole people's consciousness and treated them as a flock of sheep, where he would like to go. He said that the solution was to "strictly implement democracy.

In his book "Ethics and Politics: A Study of the Philosophy of Governance," Imam discusses the "inevitability of the democratic system," the nature of cultural development, and the subject of mixing morality and politics in the ancient civilizations of the East.

Then he presents an imam of the confusion between morality and politics in Greek thought at Plato and Aristotle, and at the Muslims, including Ibn Abi Rabee, Farabi and Mawardi.

In the following chapters, he addresses the separation of morality and politics at McAfeele, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, presents examples of democratic experiences in developed countries, and concludes the book with a strong critique of liberal democracy, calling it "civilized despotism."

Hegel Al Arabi
In his article "My Experience with Hegel," Imam describes his experience with the German philosopher as "bitter and enjoyable at the same time," considering that Hegel with its depth, breadth, comprehensiveness and fit serves as a meeting point at which the stream of ancient controversy flows. Students of Egyptian philosophy professor Zaki Naguib Mahmoud.

In his article for the journal "Philosophical Papers," he added that he made "The Hegelian Controversy" the subject of his master's thesis, "Hegel's dialectical approach." He began to study three sources: libraries, such as the libraries of Cairo University and Ain Shams. Buy what I find; study German. "

Imam wrote of lessons learned from Hegel, who translated his books, including that the philosophy of the rise from the tangible to the Lamusus, criticizing those who do not make enough effort to understand the property of abstract philosophy, although civilization is stripped, as he put it.

Imam said that he also learned from Hegel that every philosophy is necessarily an "ideal philosophy," because idealism is the principle on which any analytical idea is based, and also that thinking is robbed because it changes the form of individual things that we meet in our daily lives.

Imam strongly criticized the eastern society of sensuality, including masculinity and bending and humiliating before the victor, and the brutality and cruelty towards the beaten and the weak, considering that the eastern society did not know of freedom but the freedom of the ruler; "He is the only effective for what he wants, and all slaves follow him, The freedom of this ruler is false, because the true freedom is to submit to the whole "the mental aspect", while the ruler, who runs his whims and whims, is a slave in turn.