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maximum freedom and satisfying the only one who has full
the instinct for power. knowledge of man, and
Contrary to Machiavelli's because he has complete
viewpoint, Ayatollah Misbah knowledge about man, he can
believes that in order to and should be his true
achieve his desired perfection, lawgiver. (Misbah Yazdi,
man must be God-cantered in 2012: 124-125)
his entire life. Therefore, from Allameh's
God-cantered means doing viewpoint, originality is God-
or intending to do all human cantered, not man-cantered,
actions and behaviours, based and man reaches true evolution
on the standards and criteria only by being near to his Lord.
set by God, to obtain divine
satisfaction. 10. Machiavelli somehow
Based on this, Ayatollah accepts human dignity, but
Misbah believes that first of not its true meaning, this is
all, with all the advances of because he considers the
today's man, there are still dignity he gives to the nobles
some shortcomings in human to be different from the
affairs that indicate his dignity he gives to the weak.
limitations. Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi's
Secondly, the existence and view on human dignity is
complicated structure of man different from Machiavelli's.
indicates that he has a Creator He Refers to a part of
and his Creator cannot be human dignity as inherent and
unconscious nature. God-given. He believes that it
Thirdly, the one who created is instilled in all human
man is a wise being, and he is beings; Another part of human
dignity can be an acquired
