Contemporary Wisdom

The quality of bodily resurrection has been a complicated problem throughout the history of religious, theological and philosophical thoughts. Theorists have been trying to strengthen the grounds to overcome the problem. Transcendent Philosophy explains these grounds and principles to solve the problem. ... Read More

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A Critique of the Negative Facts and Some Theories of Nonbeing Objects; the Problem of Infinite Regress

Mahdi Assadi

Volume 5, Issue 4 , February 2015, Pages 25-36

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In this essay I try to analyze briefly the claim and proofs of Mu‘tazilite’s nonbeing objects (thubūt), Russell's earlier view in Principles of Mathematics, and Russell's later view on negative facts. I, then, indicate that since these claims have been defended and reconstructed even in ... Read More

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The Philosophical Explanation of the Doctrine of Personal Unity of Existence; A Comparative Study of Dawwani and Sadr-al Motalihin

Bagar Hossinlo; Hamed Naji

Volume 5, Issue 4 , February 2015, Pages 37-66

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The root and source of the unity of existence is mysticism, and it has been entered into philosophy from this realm. Perhaps the first philosophical explanation of the mystics’ unity of existence doctrine has been done by Dawwani. But this philosophical explanation has some unjustified and irrational ... Read More The root and source of the unity of existence is mysticism, and it has been entered into philosophy from this realm. Perhaps the first philosophical explanation of the mystics’ unity of existence doctrine has been done by Dawwani. But this philosophical explanation has some unjustified and irrational consequences and accessories. Sadra, also, makes his best efforts to give a philosophical explanation of mystics’ unity of existence of doctrine. He did that through abandoning the theory of analogical unity of existence and suggesting a new philosophical system, whose pieces have been mentioned in Asfar (Volume II) and other places of the book and also in the book of Igaz an-naimin (Awakening the sleepers). By this way, he not only has not ended philosophy, but has brought it into a new realm of philosophical thoughts. So, we must design this new philosophical system to understand this important stage of his philosophy, especially to understand his philosophical explanation of personal unity and its valuable accessories. In this paper we describe briefly the philosophical system and the ontology of Dawwani’s approach, and attempt, as much as possible, express his philosophical explanation of unity of existence through an optimistic outlook. Then we will show that even though there are some the similarities between this explanation and Sadra's philosophical explanation, Dawwani’s approach is self-inconsistent and that is why we will criticize it ultimately. Afterwards, we continue to express the Sadra's philosophical explanation of mystical unity of existence. So the object of this paper is to compare these two philosophical explanation, reveal their strengths and weaknesses, also the relationship between these two explanations. It will be clear that Sadra's philosophical explanation is worthy and reasonably defensible through a new philosophical system which has been followed by Sadra and he has referred to it in his books, not in the analogical unity of existence

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Evaluating and Analyzing Allameh Jafari’s View on Life Meaningfulness; Based on Anthropology of Religion

Gholamhosein Khedri

Volume 5, Issue 4 , February 2015, Pages 67-86

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From Allameh Jafari’s point of view, the real meaning of human life will be obtained by the progression and reach to intellectual life. This issue is directly related to human cognition and attending to his/her place as the pivot of existence and the substitute of GOD in the world. Human ego is ... Read More

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Individual Unity of Existence Theory; A Critical Study

Tahereh Sahebalzamani

Volume 5, Issue 4 , February 2015, Pages 87-104

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One of the most difficult topics in metaphysic is that how multiplicity of beings has been aroused from simple reality. Sufism Moslem scholars like Mohyedin Arabi has a special viewpoint which called ‘Individual unity of existence theory’. Mullah Sadri axiomatized this theory through the ... Read More

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Mulla Sadra on the Subjectivity of Time

Seyyed Ali Alamolhoda

Volume 5, Issue 4 , February 2015, Pages 105-122

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Most of the researches who have thought on Time from the Islamic, Peripatetic, and Sadraian point of view, have concentrated on the relationship between motion and Time. This concentration perhaps caused the other faces of this sophisticated and ancient metaphysical problem be neglected. One of the most ... Read More

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Explaining the Effects of Essence Simplicity and the Gradation of Existence on the Quality of God’s Attributes, from the MullaSadra’s Point of View

Mohammad Hosein Vafaiyan; Ghasem’ali Kochnani

Volume 5, Issue 4 , February 2015, Pages 123-135

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Self-existent in its essence has multiple inherent and real qualities. On the other hand, self-existent has the most simple and pure essentiality. The summation of the extreme simplicity and the diversity of God’s qualities is done based on the Mulla Sadra’s perspective on the essence of ... Read More

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Soul-body Relationship According to Hakīm `Āqā `Ali Modarres

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A Critique of the Negative Facts and Some Theories of Nonbeing Objects; the Problem of Infinite Regress

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The Philosophical Explanation of the Doctrine of Personal Unity of Existence; A Comparative Study of Dawwani and Sadr-al Motalihin

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Evaluating and Analyzing Allameh Jafari’s View on Life Meaningfulness; Based on Anthropology of Religion

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Individual Unity of Existence Theory; A Critical Study

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Mulla Sadra on the Subjectivity of Time

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Explaining the Effects of Essence Simplicity and the Gradation of Existence on the Quality of God’s Attributes, from the MullaSadra’s Point of View

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