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Mulla Sadra is considered unanimously as the most influential philosopher in the Islamic Philosophy tradition in the last four hundred years. Mulla Sadra’s philosophy is founded on existence as the unique constituent of reality and its primacy, the intensity of existence, and finally transubstantiality ...
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Mulla Sadra is considered unanimously as the most influential philosopher in the Islamic Philosophy tradition in the last four hundred years. Mulla Sadra’s philosophy is founded on existence as the unique constituent of reality and its primacy, the intensity of existence, and finally transubstantiality or substantial motion of being. Mulla Sadra made the primacy of existence as the main basis of his philosophy. He distinguishes between the concept of being and the reality of being. The first, is the most obvious of all concepts and the most universal, while the second, is the most ambiguous, since it requires presence knowledge and pure intellect, which would be able to discern existence as reality. Farabi and Ibn Sina perceived that in the existence-quiddity relationship, existence is an accident. Al-Suhrawardi holds the theory more radical that existence is merely a mental concept with no corresponding reality and it is quiddity, which constitutes reality. Ibn Rushd had criticized this approach. Mulla Sadra despite all Islamic philosophy tradition and his teacher, Mir Damad adopts an opposite and new outlook. His fundamental doctrine is principality of existence, and then quddities are the mental constructs. Reality is then the base of existence, which is graded and existentiating the reality of all things. Mulla Sadra at first followed his teacher and only after visionary and Gnostic existence, came to realize that it is existence, which bestows reality and has primacy on quiddity.
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Despite the prevalent opinion that the question of religious language and propositions' meaning has manifested in the beginning of the twenty century; an inquiry in outlooks of thinkers who dispute this subject indicates that this problem is one of the most influential approaches in the history of religious-philosophical ...
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Despite the prevalent opinion that the question of religious language and propositions' meaning has manifested in the beginning of the twenty century; an inquiry in outlooks of thinkers who dispute this subject indicates that this problem is one of the most influential approaches in the history of religious-philosophical thoughts. From the negative theology to the last paradigm, i. e. of Alston's functionalism, many approaches have been introduced. In a macro classification, we may confront with six methods in religious language: three classic methods and three modern ones. Which one of these approaches would include Hegel’s philosophy of religion? The main questions of this essay are: 1-Is the problem of religious language meaning considered as the main question in Hegelian philosophy? 2-Which approach has been disposed by Hegel in religious domain? 3-Supposing meaning for religious language in Hegel, whether religious statements are knowledgeable? 4-Despite classifying religion in three types in Hegel philosophy and his concentration on the content and absolute truth in Christianity; could it be possible to consider meaning for religious language in Hegel's thoughts? 5-Is there any resemblance between representation (Vorstellung) theory of Hegel and analogical theology of Aquinas specifically in proportional allegory? The main hypothesis of this article is that Hegel considers meaning and knowledge for religious language and we may speak about religion and ultimate (Transcendent) being by human language in meaningful way
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