Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

Allameh Tabatabai has valuable social ideas and thoughts in different social areas. This paper reviews the methodology and the epistemic and non-epistemic aspects of his social thoughts, and studies the methodological necessities of its fundamentals. A large part of Allameh’s social thoughts are focused on social conditions and cultural issues. Through an eclectic approach, he presented these thoughts in descriptive, explanatory and normative aspects in accordance with the principles of Islamic philosophy and divine teachings .His social thoughts are organized around the innate ontological and anthropological foundations , but the innate anthropology plays a more pivotal role in his social thoughts .His ideas in this regard are reflected in different books, however a main portion is discussed in his precious book , Al-Mizan , which is the basis of this paper.