Mahmoud Khatami
| Mahmoud Khatami محمود خاتمی | |
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 Iranian
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| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Philosophy |
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Main interests
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Metaphysics · Humanity Axiology · |
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Notable ideas
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Ontetic Philosophy "Illuminative Vitalism" |
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Mahmoud Khatami(Persian: محمود خاتمی) is an Iranian philosopher. He is best known for developing "Ontetic Philosophy."
Mahmoud Khatami grew up in Tehran. Showing an early interest in humanities, he attended the Seminary of Islamic Studies which gained him the traditional degree of Ijtihad, the highest level in Islamic religious and theological learning. Concurrently, he attended the University of Tehran to pursue his secular education for BA, MA and MS, and finally a PhD in philosophy. Afterwards, he continued his further education in England, where he was awarded his second PhD and post- doc in the field of Philosophical Psychology.
Returning to Iran, he was appointed to the Department of Philosophy at University of Tehran in 1997 where he is now a Professor of Contemporary Philosophy. In 2002, he was appointed as Fellow of Iran’s Academy of the Arts. In the meantime, Khatami has been invited, and visiting professor at Iranian as well as Western universities, and has been rewarded and awarded for his academic excellence both inside and outside Iran.
In November 2014, some reports were published which charged Mahmoud Khatami with extensive plagiarism. Some philosophy researchers followed up on this claim and compared his papers with the others' ones and published the results, which confirmed the claim, on their blogs. The Organon F, international journal of analytic philosophy, has officially announced that "The paper entitled “The Epistemological Quest: From the Possibility of Experience to the Possibility of Communication” (Organon F, 10, 2003, No. 4, 357-379) published under the name of Mahmoud Khatami was withdrawn from our web page. It turned out that the paper was almost a verbatim copy of another work which appeared as a book chapter written by someone else". On December 1, 2014, the University of Tehran has issued a statement on the plagiarism allegations against Mahmoud Khatami declaring that "should charges be proved, the university would punish the wrongdoer severely, and refer the case to the proper authorities. However, if the allegations are proved wrong, the University, as always, has the obligation to defend its faculty members".
Trained in phenomenology as well as classical Islamic philosophy, and profoundly affected by the philosophies of Suhrawardi and Mulla Sadra, and encouraged by philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Khatami developed a distinctive approach that rejects subjectivism and relativism, abjures any simple notion of interpretive method, and focuses on the study of the nature of being.
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