Mohammad Kazem Elmi Sola; Seyyede Akram Barakati
Volume 6, Issue 1 , May 2015, , Pages 67-94
Abstract
The present article studies Paul Ricoeur and Mulla Sadra's views on imagination, particularly its influential role in knowledge. Though their philosophies differ in principle, they share certain ideas in common. Ricoeur, contemporary philosopher and hermeneut, utilizes semiotics, linguistics, structuralism, ...
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The present article studies Paul Ricoeur and Mulla Sadra's views on imagination, particularly its influential role in knowledge. Though their philosophies differ in principle, they share certain ideas in common. Ricoeur, contemporary philosopher and hermeneut, utilizes semiotics, linguistics, structuralism, and so on, to enrich hermeneutics. Language, thus, gets a central role in his philosophy. The basic difference of Ricoeur’s idea on imagination which distinguishes him from Mulla Sadra is that ‘language’ is used as a basis to explain imagination; he explains the role of imagination in knowledge through language. But Mulla Sadra does not directly deals with language, but considers act of imagination in constituting knowledge as an act of certain faculty of the soul. But in spite of this basic difference, both philosophers consider imagination as a mediator between external world and internal world of the mind and both explain this possibility by the notion of integration of two different issues.
Husain Mokhayeran; Mohammad Kazem Elmi
Volume 4, Issue 3 , March 2014, , Pages 103-117
Abstract
The problem of gradation is undoubtedly one of the fundamental issues in philosophy. We can perhaps consider this problem as a criterion to distinguish Sadrian philosophers from others. So that we can say that pre Sadrian philosophers have mostly rejected it but all Sadrians have more or less accepted ...
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The problem of gradation is undoubtedly one of the fundamental issues in philosophy. We can perhaps consider this problem as a criterion to distinguish Sadrian philosophers from others. So that we can say that pre Sadrian philosophers have mostly rejected it but all Sadrians have more or less accepted the idea.
Among pre Sadrians, there are some philosophers who have no explicit position on the issue, such as Mirfenderesky. The present article attempt to explain the peculiar position of the two philosophers on the problem of gradation through comparing their philosophies
