Document Type : Biannual Journal

Authors

• Mohammadreza Balanian
• Morteza Hajihosseini

Abstract

 
Abandoningtheactive intellectas the main cause of perceptual forms, is there any different approach, based ontheprinciples ofSadra’s philosophy, to explain the process of human knowledge obtaining? Thispaper arguesthough Sadra devoted many pages in his works to the quality of human knowledgeobtaining, with the focus on the active intellect as the main cause, certainprinciples oftranscendentwisdom of Sadra, make us needless from that defective analysis and provide us with a more acceptableandeasierapproach. This approach is based on his peculiar principles and innovations such as existentialism,gradual unity of existence, existential identity of the human, the unification of intellect and intelligibe, and the knowledge division into simple and compound. We will show that these principles allow us to defendthe existential openness of levels of existence towards each other. Also, relying on existential motion of human, they explain the process of human cognition justifiably

Abandoningtheactive intellectas the main cause of perceptual forms, is there any different approach, based ontheprinciples ofSadra’s philosophy, to explain the process of human knowledge obtaining? Thispaper arguesthough Sadra devoted many pages in his works to the quality of human knowledgeobtaining, with the focus on the active intellect as the main cause, certainprinciples oftranscendentwisdom of Sadra, make us needless from that defective analysis and provide us with a more acceptableandeasierapproach. This approach is based on his peculiar principles and innovations such as existentialism,gradual unity of existence, existential identity of the human, the unification of intellect and intelligibe, and the knowledge division into simple and compound. We will show that these principles allow us to defendthe existential openness of levels of existence towards each other. Also, relying on existential motion of human, they explain the process of human cognition justifiably.
Keywords:existentialism, unity of existence, conceiving the man as a unity, the unification of the intellect and the intelligibe, simple knowledge

Keywords

• existentialism
• unity of existence
• conceiving the man as a unity
• the unification of the intellect and the intelligibe
• simple knowledge