The Philosophy of Mulla Sadra (Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi)
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Author: Dr. Fazlur Rahman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Category: Islamic Philosophy
ISBN: 0-87395-300-2 and 0-87395-301-0
The Philosophy of Mulla Sadra (Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi)
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- A. Mulla Sadra and the Character of His Philosophy
- B. Sadra's Sources and His Originality
- 1. General
- 2. Sadra's Predecessors
- 3. Evaluation
- C. Sadra's Works and His Influence
- Notes
- PART I: ONTOLOGY
- Chapter I: The Metaphysics of Existence
- A. Existence
- B. Controversy with the “Essentialists”
- C. Systematic Ambiguity (Tashkik ) of Existence
- D. Tension between Monism and Pluralism
- Notes
- Chapter II: Essence
- Notes
- Chapter III: Cause I: Nature of Causation
- A. Cause-Effect Relationship
- B. Impossibility of Causal Regress
- Notes
- Chapter IV: Cause II: God-World Relationship
- A. Efficient Cause and Final Cause
- B. God-World Relationship
- Notes
- Chapter V: Movement, Time, and World-Order
- A. Movement
- B. Time
- C. World-Order
- Notes
- PART II: THEOLOGY
- Chapter I: God's Nature
- A. Proof of God's Existence
- B. God as Pure Existence
- C. God's Unity
- Notes
- Chapter II: God's Attributes - I
- A. God's Being and Attributes
- B. Knowledge
- Notes
- Chapter III: God's Attributes - II
- A. Power and Will
- 1. A Survey of Alternative Views
- 2. Sadra's Criticism of These Views and His Position
- 3. Relationship of God's Will to Man
- 4. Doctrines of Bada' (Change of Mind in God), Naskh (Abrogation of Laws) and Taraddud (Reluctant Decision)
- B. Divine Speech and Revelation
- Notes
- PART III: PSYCHOLOGY; MAN AND HIS DESTINY
- Chapter I: Nature of the Soul
- Notes
- Chapter II : Theory of Knowledge - I
- A. General Considerations
- B. The Problem of “Mental Existence (al-wujud al-dhihni )”
- Notes
- Chapter III: Theory of Knowledge - II: Perception and Imagination
- A. External Sense
- B. Internal Sense: Imagination and Wahm
- Notes
- Chapter IV: Theory of Knowlege - III: The Intellect
- A. Introduction
- B. The Problem of Abstraction
- C. Ibn Sina on the “Simple Intellect”
- D. Identity of the Intellect and the Intelligible
- Notes
- Chapter V: Eschatology
- A. Impossibility of Transmigration
- B. Proofs of an Afterlife
- C. The Nature of Afterlife
- Notes
- EPILOGUE
