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Spoznajna teorija Mulla Sadre Širazija
Mulla Sadra’s Theory of Knowledge

Author(s): Rusmir Šadić
Subject(s): Epistemology, Islam studies, Middle-East Philosophy
Published by: Fondacija “Baština duhovnosti”
Keywords: theory of knowledge; Islamic philosophy; unification argument; knowledge-by-presence;

Summary/Abstract: Recent research and numerous titles published in the West prove unfounded views about “the end” of the Islamic philosophy after the death of Averroes and testify to the existence of a rich intellectual tradition developed within Muslim intellectual circles. Epistemology, although inextricably linked to the ontology and metaphysics, belongs to the disciplines that are particularly cherished within the later Islamic philosophical thought. The author shows that on the example of the doctrine on unification of intellector and intelligible (Ittihad al-‘āqil wa al-ma‘qūl), and ideas of knowledge-by-presence (‘ilm al-huduri), which are the categories that predominantly belong to Sadrian philosophical tradition.

  • Issue Year: III/2017
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 4-11
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bosnian