Epistemology of the Real Being in Mulla Sadra’s philosophy

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Assistant professor at theology school,Azarbayjan Shahid Madani university

Abstract

In Mulla sadra’s philosophy, the foundation of all philosophical issues is neither peripatetic’s concept of Being nor illuminating essential light but the Reality of Being. Accordingly,  Mulla Sadra emphasizes on the status of the Reality of Being as source of knowledge and realization by distinguishing between conceptual and existential origin. So the question arises, that the Reality of Being as source of knowledge and reality how can be recognized? By exploring  Mulla Sadra’s works, we concluded that although Mulla Sadra did not care about the epistemological dimension of the reality of Being as much as the ontological dimension, but there are two answers: conceptual and acquired knowledge and knowledge by presence and vision. In this paper, we try to analyze these two responses by an analytical approach. Also it examines this question that what kinds of knowledge by presence belong to the reality of Being. And what is the reference of the reality of Being in Mulla sadra’s philosophy.

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