Azam Mardiha; Sayed Mortaza Hosseini Shahroudi
Abstract
The question of 'imaginal perception' (al-idrāk al-khayālī) constitutes one of the most complex and important sections of the 'Transcendental Philosophy' (al-hikmat al-muta'āliyya) of Sadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī (1569-1640). Sadr al-Dīn's contribution to the conception of 'imaginal perception' ...
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The question of 'imaginal perception' (al-idrāk al-khayālī) constitutes one of the most complex and important sections of the 'Transcendental Philosophy' (al-hikmat al-muta'āliyya) of Sadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī (1569-1640). Sadr al-Dīn's contribution to the conception of 'imaginal perception' is distinguished from those of his towering predecessors, namely Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and Suhrawardi. In fact, Sadr al-Dīn developed inspiring ideas connected with 'imaginal faculty', 'imaginal perception' and 'imaginal realm', and he did it on the basis of his well-considered and elaborated doctrines such as 'principality and primacy of being' (isālat al-wujūd, that the 'being' of each object is principial vis-a vis its 'quiddity' and that the essential qualities of 'Being', including 'knowledge' ('ilm), are concomitant with 'Being' itself), as well as based on his theories of perception and cognition, of the 'perfection in esse' or 'substantial perfection' of the soul, and of correspondence between the multiple states of 'being' and those of the human being - as a microcosmic image of 'being' itself. In the same line, Sadr al-Dīn also developed Suhrawardī's teachings on the 'imaginal world' as a mediatory realm between the sensory and the intelligible realms. It was on the basis of such elaborated doctrines and theories that Sadr al-Dīn succeeded to explain some particular problems related to the 'soul', among them, one may refer to the problem of 'reward and punshment in the Hereafter' as well as the question of 'bodily or corporal resurrection'.
Fatemeh Moindini; Alireza Kohansal; seyd morteza hosseini shahroudi
Volume 7, Issue 4 , January 2017, , Pages 87-109
Manouchehr Khademi; seyyed mourteza houseini shahrudi; seyed housein seyed moosavi
Volume 5, Issue 2 , November 2014, , Pages 47-74
Abstract
The human knowledge from the different levels of its being and achieving knowledge from outside world, and the correspondence between human science and world, are among most important issues that have preoccupied the mind of many contemporary thinkers and epistemologists. The author of this paper has ...
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The human knowledge from the different levels of its being and achieving knowledge from outside world, and the correspondence between human science and world, are among most important issues that have preoccupied the mind of many contemporary thinkers and epistemologists. The author of this paper has tried, based on the principles of Transcendental Theosophy such as Asalat al-wujud, Wahdat al-wujud, and their implications, to show that contrary to what is called Mullasadra’s epistemology (his views on the nature of science and discovery) and regarded as Mullasadra’s ultimate believe, in philosophical circles, the theory is not the Mullasadra’s final position. I, based on my study and contemplation on his ideas want to prove that the Mullasarda doesn’t believe that science is produced by the perfect forms acquisition through Trans-Substantial Motion, rather the essence of discovery is achieved in the process of Trans-Substantial Motion
