The fundamentality of existence and the subjectivity of quiddity |
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Authors: | ‘Abd al-Rasul ‘Ubudiyyat |
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Institution: | (1) The Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute, Bolvar Amin, Khiyaban Jumhuri Islami Qom, Qom, I.R. Iran |
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Abstract: | It would not be an overstatement to say that Mulla Sadra’s metaphysical system—commonly known as transcendent philosophy or transcendent wisdom (hikmat muta‘aliyyah)—is founded on the fundamentality of existence and the subjectivity of quiddity or whatness. I will begin this essay by drawing
a rather simple picture of this principle under the title “A Common Error.” Then I will proceed by explaining its background
and the reasoning supporting it, while offering a more detailed elucidation of the problem. The essay will end by examining
two recent interpretations that have gone to extremes in describing quiddity’s subjective nature.
This article was written in Farsi specifically for this edition of Topoi and was translated by D. D. Sodagar and Muhammad Legenhausen.
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Keywords: | Essence Existence Fundamentality of existence Mulla Sadra Predication Quiddity Sohravardi Transcendent wisdom Whatness |
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