چکیده:
Ṣadrā presents the usefulness of the faculties of perception governed by the intellect as a fitting paradigm for understanding man’s being in the world in relation to the divine purpose and source of this being. Perception raises challenging questions which, while peripheral to philosophy proper, have contributed to the debate on knowing and being. Dating back to the Presocratics, this debate came to a head in Islamicate civilization, where perception played a paradigmatic role that also put civilization, on a human scale, at the forefront of the philosophical enterprise. Contemporary historians of thought obscure this role when their interpretations of past traditions are too heavily colored by the positivist conception of perception.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Shaker* Professor at Institute of Islamic Studies McGill University- Canada Abstract Ṣadrā presents the usefulness of the faculties of perception governed by the intellect as a fitting paradigm for understanding man’s being in the world in relation to the divine purpose and source of this being.
Intellect as the paragon of man's being With respect to the paradigm of man in the world, Ṣadrā employs the same basic argument in several works to show the purposive utility of the faculties of perception (Al-Mabda’, 204-14; Mafātīḥ, 504-20; Al-Ḥikma, III.
From whence man obtains this status thus becomes crucial, given that he is at the same time part of that life: that intellect is open to being must somehow mean a knowing and being for the sake of both man and God. Below the summit of the intellect, the common sense (al-ḥiss al- mushtarak) operates as the intermediate faculty that first turns the multiplicity of what is sensed about a thing into a single object-perception in consonance with the perceiver.
This is a paradigm for making plain the ranking of what God has put inside you and blessed you with [having] to do with perception, the order of the things of perception in you, including the sensory, imaginative and intellective faculties, which in reality are a party of God’s angels made subservient to the orderliness of your affairs commensurately with perception (Ibid.