Payam Aghasi; Azizolah Afshar Kermani
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The different definitions of rationalists and empiricists from man have different approaches to man. Hegel offers a dialectical view of whole and part together in a Kantian-Spinoza context by defining man as an embodiment subject, while also paying attention to his totality, while also showing the importance ...
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The different definitions of rationalists and empiricists from man have different approaches to man. Hegel offers a dialectical view of whole and part together in a Kantian-Spinoza context by defining man as an embodiment subject, while also paying attention to his totality, while also showing the importance of his particularity and individuality. Mulla Sadra, on the other hand, makes a significant contribution to the body in perception. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the embodiment of the subject on the principle of conatus from the perspective of Mulla Sadra and Hegel. Just as the embodiment of the subject in Hegel's view leads to the conatus, the acceptance of the axis of the soul-body as the subject for Mulla Sadra also leads to the conatus, albeit with differences, which in turn, in addition to individual and social changes in the attitudes to the humanities and the importance of physical life and collective well-being, lead to a change in the attitude towards humanities.
Bayan Karimi; Seyyed Mostafa Shahraeini; Yusef Nozohur
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Spinoza is the first and the most important political philosopher to have considered Democracy as the best government. The superiority of Democracy in Spinoza’s political philosophy is based on the metaphysical foundations of his thought. Spinoza has taken two stands regarding the human nature; ...
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Spinoza is the first and the most important political philosopher to have considered Democracy as the best government. The superiority of Democracy in Spinoza’s political philosophy is based on the metaphysical foundations of his thought. Spinoza has taken two stands regarding the human nature; on the one hand, he represents a naturalistic explanation for human-being and introduces Conatus or self-preservation as the first and the most fundamental feature of all natural beings, including human nature. On the other hand, his perfectionist metaphysical system calls for choosing a superior model for human nature by which it can be shown how to be liberated from passions of the soul and to put human beings in the limits of reason by detaching them from irrationalism of desires. Spinoza considers Democracy as superior for it is the most natural and the most rational kind of government; the most natural as it has the highest similarity with the natural state of mankind in which human is free to protect his nature and he has the right to do everything in its power; the most rational as the more the decision makers, the less the possibility of domination of ruinous and irrational passions. Our main question in this paper is how the superiority of Democracy over other governments is the outcome of metaphysical system. The central claim in this paper is that Spinoza’s assertion about superiority of Democracy is comprehensible only when we grasp his interpretation of human nature which is based on his metaphysical foundations.