IBN ‘ARABIJEVA SPOZNAJNA TEORIJA
IBN ARABI’S THEORY OF COGNITION

Summary/Abstract: The text entitled as above analyses essential distinctions of Ibn ‘Arabi’s epistemology with a particular emphasis on its mystic consideration. The essence of his epistemology was put forward in accordance with the rules of metaphysical preference for the sources of cognition and cognitive process that a spiritual traveler has to go through on his way towards the Truth. Ibn ‘Arabi bases his theory of cognition first of all on those sources of cognition that elude the epistemological field at a historical level, but he does not neglect the latest sources of cognition either, from whose perspective derived is that ascending cognitive evolution of human genius that tries to observe the whole Truth in the perspective of the historical level too. This means that Ibn ‘Arabi, when perceiving the Truth, exposes himself equally to metacosmic Grace and cosmo-historical Wisdom. After defining the essential sources of Ibn ‘ Arabi’s epistemology, the author classified the basic patterns of cognition that the spiritual traveler (Sâlik) reaches in an ascending-cognitive order, starting from the knowledge taken from the world (al- ‘Ilm), via theosophical wisdom which is specifıcally Sophia divina or Sophia perennis (al-Hikma al-Lâduniyyâ), finding peace in the pure wisdom of the Divine Spirit, which is (the wisdom) fundamental glory, living gnosis of the Divine Essence (al-Ma ‘rifa). With each new spiritual phase, the spiritual traveler (Sâlik) acquires a new profile of his spiritual feature that is identical to the internal nature of the acquired cognitive form.

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