abdolali shokr; sedighe mirzaee
Volume 12, Issue 45 , April 2016, , Pages 65-78
Abstract
Acceptance and affirmation of principality of existence, requires the acceptance of existence being made. Therefore, principality of existence is in cohesion with it's made; although there are some differences between the two subjects. On the basis of Transcendental Wisdom, criterion of being made is ...
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Acceptance and affirmation of principality of existence, requires the acceptance of existence being made. Therefore, principality of existence is in cohesion with it's made; although there are some differences between the two subjects. On the basis of Transcendental Wisdom, criterion of being made is determined based on copulative existence. Copulative existence means total dependence on other. What is absolutely dependent on the cause, it is a real made of it. In Sadra's school, there are differences between the meaning of copulative existence and copulative existence in the proposition one, something that has been neglected in Kant thought. As critique to Anselm's ontological argument, Kant believes that the existence does not cause any increase in the subject, but it is only copulative existence. Criterion of being predicative is increase in subject. This expression is different of something research in transcendentalism; because Kant refers only to the copulative existence in proposition. But Mulla Sadra refers to another kind of copulative existence which obtained from the analysis of the principle of causality. According to this view, all possibilities will be absolutely related to God. He divided the propositions into composition whetherness and simple whetherness. Predicate in the second one, is existence. Kant says that these kinds of propositions are meaningless. He believes that proposition 'God exists' is not synthetic and not analytic. But Mulla Sadra says that proposition 'God exists' means: the affirmation of the self-identity of a thing. So, in simple whetherness proposition, predicative existence does not increase in subject, because of the quiddity being mentally-posited and fundamental reality of existence.
ali akbar nasiri; amir hamze miradi
Abstract
A large portion of discussions about God’s names and attributes is devoted to narrative attributes of God, i.e. divine attributes referred to in the Quran and Hadith. From the early days of Islam, Muslims asked questions as to whether God has limbs similar to other creatures. After the Holy Prophet ...
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A large portion of discussions about God’s names and attributes is devoted to narrative attributes of God, i.e. divine attributes referred to in the Quran and Hadith. From the early days of Islam, Muslims asked questions as to whether God has limbs similar to other creatures. After the Holy Prophet of Islam passed away, the Ummah became divided into different groups holding different views about the narrative attributes of God: Ashā'irah, Karāmiah, and Ekhbāriah who accepted the divine attributes without interpretation and opposed the intervention of reasoning in that (supporters of tashbih); mystics and some philosophers, including Mulla Sadra who believed that God is essentially single and thus Munazzah; still, He reveals Himself through the attributes of creatures, and is, thus, Mushabbah (supporters of tashbih-tanzih) and finally Shiites and Mu’tazilah who interpreted the narrative attributes of God (supporters of ta’vil). The third group holds the right view. This article addresses the principality of existence, gradation and modulation of existence and unity of existence. It is recommended that a new system based on the principality of essence, rejection of congruity, spiritual commonality, and gradation and modulation of existence replace the existential theories of Transcendental Philosophy in order to better explain the theory of pure tanzih.