Zahra Mohammadi Mohammadieh; Abbas Javareshkian
Volume 4, Issue 4 , July 2014, , Pages 99-119
Abstract
Plato on the basis of his unifier viewpoint offered the theory of Idea and other cosmological related to creation and the chain and arrangement of beings. He also placed the principal of Goodness in the climax of the pyramid of his ontology, and by which tried to refer the plurality of beings to oneness. ...
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Plato on the basis of his unifier viewpoint offered the theory of Idea and other cosmological related to creation and the chain and arrangement of beings. He also placed the principal of Goodness in the climax of the pyramid of his ontology, and by which tried to refer the plurality of beings to oneness. On the other hand, Mulla Sadra by his philosophical and religious principals and on the basis on his unifier viewpoint offered his first ontological theory (i.e. Tashkiki unity of being) and the ultimate one (i.e. personal unity of being). As a result, he also tried to explain the quality of manifold beings by reference to oneness. Despite the thought differences of the two philosophers in the field which based is based on their philosophical foundations, both return manifold beings to unity, so that they regard manifold beings as shadows of a transcendent unity. Ontology in Plato's thought corresponds with Mulla Sadra's first theory (i.e. Tashkiki unity of being).
Khalilollah Ahmadvand; Somaiieh Maleki; Zahra Yazdani Daghian
Volume 4, Issue 1 , October 2013, , Pages 1-22
Abstract
Thoughts of Thomas Aquinas and Molla Sadra, because of relying on religious beliefs, are based on the word “Existence”. Among the philosophers of middle ages, Thomas Aquinas grasped the prominence of existence on essence. What for Thomas has the first importance, in fact, is the prominence ...
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Thoughts of Thomas Aquinas and Molla Sadra, because of relying on religious beliefs, are based on the word “Existence”. Among the philosophers of middle ages, Thomas Aquinas grasped the prominence of existence on essence. What for Thomas has the first importance, in fact, is the prominence of existence, and also Molla Sadra in Islamic philosophy, with taking the existence (not existent), as the issue of metaphysics, created a new revolution in Islamic thought. However Thomas Aquinas and Molla Sadra have no difference in believing in supreme essence and its attributes, but in expressing, describing and explaining the structure of essence, they have some differences. Here, we tried to compare this two philosopher’s opinions on the issue of being and essence, or existence and essence
