Ontological analysis of the relationship between God and the world from the perspective of Mulla Sadra and Plato

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department of slamic cultures, faculty of basic sciences, babol noshirvani university of technology, babol, iran

10.22061/orj.2021.1579

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The idea of the origin of the universe and how it was created is one of the most important and oldest philosophical issues. This article tries to study the issue of the relationship between God and the world in the ontology of Plato and Mulla Sadra with a descriptive-analytical method and to find its similarities and differences. The main question is what is the existential relationship of God with the world from the point of view of these two philosophers? Different interpretations of Plato's view are offered according to his symbolic expression. In a more accurate interpretation, Plato's god, in addition to order, has attributes such as celibacy, goodness, unity, stability, avarice and beauty, which are also characterized by Mulla Sadra's god. Mulla Sadra also attributes some other attributes to God, such as the gift of existence and reward . He considers creatures with different degrees of their existence, poverty to independent existence, to be obligatory, which in the system of personal unity of existence, they are the levels of grace and manifestation of God. In Plato's three interpretations about the relationship between God and the world is of the type of the moderator's relationship with the regular world of sensations, or of the possessor of the shadow with the shadow, or the causal with his creations. But in the Mulla Sadra's Idea ,this relation is relation of independent existence with relational beings and in the system of his unity of existence is relation existing with his predecessors. 

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Journal of Ontological Researches
Volume 10, Issue 19
September 2021

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