Mullah Sadr - existence as reality

[GrowingSmaller]

Apparently he is a major figure in Ismalic philosophy (the Shias did the most philosophising by far). Not many Westerners would have heard of him.

What do you make of this argument:

Mulla Sadra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Eudaimonist]

Which argument? There are several.

In the "Existence as Reality" argument, he loses me once he brings up the concept "perfection". I don't find this a helpful concept when speaking of either Existence or God.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[Paradoxum]

I'm not sure I understand the argument. He just seems to be jumping round everywhere in his argument. It's also to vague to understand what he is talking about. Perhaps Wikipedia doesn't do his argument justice, in this short form.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

That is an ontological argument.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

Sounds like St Thomas' "sumum bonum" argument. There are grades of goodness, therefore an ultimate good (i.e. God) must exist.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

Which argument? There are several.

In the "Existence as Reality" argument, he loses me once he brings up the concept "perfection".
Mark

Maybe this will help (although I am speculating here):

Blessed be He in Whose hands is Dominion; and He over all things hath Power;-


He Who created Death and Life, that He may try which of you is best in deed: and He is the Exalted in Might, Oft-Forgiving;-


He Who created the seven heavens one above another: No want of proportion wilt thou see in the Creation of ((Allah)) Most Gracious. So turn thy vision again: seest thou any flaw?

"you can see no fault in the creation of the Most Gracious. "
means, it (the creation) is done in a flawless manner, and these are connected with each other so as to forms a straight level, having no disunion, conflict, inconsistency, deficiency, flaw or defect.

I think in Muslim phiolosophy the empiricism vs rationalism paradigm is not there, and the non-secular is not treated with contempt but rather there is a basis for knowledge, divinely revealed. So alongside world and reason there is the Koran, a manifestation of divine inspiration - wahy.