چکیده:
Mulla Sadra and Leibniz، the two philosophers from the East and the West، belong to two different worlds. Though they were unaware of the ideas of each other، their philosophical systems share certain common points that are comparable. Monads constitute the basis of Leibniz's thought and he refers to their features in his various works. On the other side، Mulla Sadra's philosophy is also based on being and he tries to deal with its reality in his philosophy. Though Leibniz's monads are many and Mulla Sadra's being is one، they use certain terms for monads and being which are very close to each other and are comparable from different points of view. Leibniz’s monads، while being many، are one as well. Similarly، Mulla Sadra's philoso-phy also enjoys multiplicity in unity. Leibniz's monads enjoy perception and Mulla Sadra's being likewise coexists with knowledge. This paper is an attempt to study being in Mulla Sadra's thought and monad in Leibniz's philosophy، and pinpoints the basic common grounds in these two philoso-phers.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Leibniz’s Monads and Mulla Sadra’s Hierarchy of Being: A Comparative Study Ali Fath Taheri - Assistant professor of Philosophy, Imam Khomeini International University, Iran Abstract Keywords: 1391/10/27 : <1391/9/8 : - In the history of philosophy, we come across occasionally certain ideas that are shared by both Eastern and Western philosophers.
It is possible that their common points of view stemmed from their study of Plotinus’ theology, falsely attributed to Aristotle by Muslim philosophers and appreciated both by Mulla Sadra and Leibniz (Davari Ardakani, 1379, p.
At any rate, from different points of view the ideas of the two philosophers are susceptible of a comparative study and this article seeks to explore their main concerns in philosophy: "being" of Mulla Sadra and "monad" of Leibniz.
Since Mulla Sadra and Leibniz considered reality as simple, and at the same time did not consider multiplicity as illusion, the starting point and one of the basic issues of the two philosophers was to clarify the unity and multiplicity of the reality.
In his view, simplicity of Necessity necessitates the negation of any kind of combin- ation including mental or external combination such as genus and difference, matter and form, and being and quiddity from God (Mulla Sadra, 1380, pp.
Mulla Sadra referred to this division to prove that perception and knowledge of divine being is innate, while Leibniz did so to solve the problems resulted from Cartesian dualism and explain the two substances of mind-body problem (Davari Ardakani, 1379, p."