خلاصة:
Despite the difference of opinions regarding existence of motion among philosophers، there is unanimity among Peripatetics، illuminationists and Sadraian philosophers as to the very occurrence of motion. Muslim philosophers are divided over arguments for existence of motion. For some it is self-evident، while others tried to prove it. The way motion takes place is another subject for difference of opinion among them. Some philosophers conceptualize it in terms of traversing motion while others conceive it as mediating motion. The present article is an attempt to study this problem from viewpoints of Peripatetics، illuminationists، Mirdamad، Mulla Sadra، Allama Tabatabae، and Martyr Mutahri.
ملخص الجهاز:
To prove the existence of motion in this sense, it must correspond to its instance, whereas Allameh's explanation does not imply a gradual transition; because in this argument, a thing has an actuality, and within it is the potentiality to receive a subsequent actuality, and immediately there is another actuality that possesses the potentiality for a subsequent actuality; meaning, each of the previous actualities possesses the potentiality for a higher actuality; these actualities are ordered upon one another, and successive states of rest occur.
The Sheikh said in Al-Shifa: [الحركة اسم لمعنيين] The first meaning: Motion in the sense of continuity, which the mind perceives as a single, connected matter from the beginning to the end of the distance; its starting point is the beginning of the distance, and its end is the conclusion of the motion, and moving from the beginning to the end is a single unit.
(Ibid: 35) 5- Negation of the existence of intermediate motion Sadr al-Muta'allihin, in this matter, raises an objection to the external existence of intermediate motion and writes: In reality, motion in the sense of being intermediate does not exist; because intermediate motion is the being of something between a beginning and an end, and this meaning is a universal concept and has many individuals.
Sadr al-Muta'allihin's response to the objection regarding the existence of intermediate motion Mulla Sadra, in response to the objection about the external existence of motion in the sense of intermediacy, writes: Although this meaning of motion has ambiguity when compared to instantaneous and temporal occurrences which the intellect validates, despite this, from another perspective, it is a specified and determined matter.
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