Human Nature in "Shakhname" by Abulqosim Firdawsi
The philosophical-cultural heritage of A. Firdawsi is especially actual not only for Iran, but for many Western and Central Asian countries either, in particular, for Tajikistan. The article under consideration being actual enables to look through the creation of A. Firdavsi in the systematic-conceptual plan, including the analysis not only of the issues which are connected with the problems of ontology and gnoseology but of the surveyings dealing with the study of human nature in both historic and modern social-cultural context either. The object of the research became the chief source study materials belonging to «Shakhname» by A. Firdawsi including the ideas of epos in regard to the disclosure of human nature based on ontological-gnoseological aspects. The author comes to the conclusion that human nature is weak. It is subjected to the following vices: hubris, envy, thirst for power and etc. Human nature can''t be always good or always evil. Indeed, it is given by divine providence but it can be lost due to human actions. Firdawsi shows that human nature which is oriented on evil when having such an arm as the concealed truth can use it with destructive force for those people who follow righteous laws.