"SUBSTANCE" FROM MULLA SADRA'S POINT OF VIEW

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AKBARIAN REZA | Issue Writer Certificate

Keywords

SUBSTANCEQ3

ACCIDENTQ3

TRANSCENDENTQ3

PHILOSOPHYQ3

MULLA SADRAQ2

Abstract

Mulla Sadra's view concerning SUBSTANCE and ACCIDENT differs from that of Aristotle and even Ibn Sina. With respect to existence, he regards ACCIDENT sand attributes of every object as the stages and ranks of the existence of SUBSTANCE. The general assumption is that objects require their attributes for maintaining their individuation and exclusive characteristics. However, according to the genuine principle of the principiality of existence, in TRANSCENDENT PHILOSOPHY these various attributes are not the causes of individuation, but the signs of individuation. The point is that different beings differ from each other in essence and by depending on their own specific existence and it is because of the individuation of entity that their attributes turn to be different and not the other way round. Therefore, every existent is but one ipseity and that single ipseity has various appearances and faces. According to this idea, individuation is not imposed upon beings from outside; rather, it originates from the very essence of the beings. Therefore, any attribute or ACCIDENT in an object is exactly the attribute and ACCIDENT of its specific existence; as a result, the motion of the object is, in fact, the very ipseity of that object. In other words, the ACCIDENTs and attributes of any object are the stages of the existence of SUBSTANCE with respect to existence. In this way, the renewal of ACCIDENTs is impossible unless through the renewal of SUBSTANCE; a renewal which is perpetual, conjunctive, and compatible with the maintenance of the individuation of the object and this is the very same as motion within SUBSTANCE.

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THE BASIC PRINCIPLE IN IBN-SINA'S ONTOLOGY

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APA: Copy

AKBARIAN, REZA. (2008). "SUBSTANCE" FROM MULLA SADRA'S POINT OF VIEW. JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF LETTERS AND HUMANITIES (UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN), -(51), 41-68. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/47780/en

Vancouver: Copy

AKBARIAN REZA. "SUBSTANCE" FROM MULLA SADRA'S POINT OF VIEW. JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF LETTERS AND HUMANITIES (UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN)[Internet]. 2008;-(51):41-68. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/47780/en

IEEE: Copy

REZA AKBARIAN, “"SUBSTANCE" FROM MULLA SADRA'S POINT OF VIEW,” JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF LETTERS AND HUMANITIES (UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN), vol. -, no. 51, pp. 41–68, 2008, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/47780/en

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