2018 Volume 3 Issue 2 Supplementary
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POSSIBILITY OR IMPOSSIBILITY OF EXTRACTING AN AESTHETICAL SYSTEM FROM MOLLA SADRA’S PHILOSOPHY


Zainab SAKI1, Hassan BOLKHARI2*
Abstract

In the philosophical system of Islamic philosophers, it cannot be found an independent area called philosophy of art and aesthetics. If it has been happened any discussion in this regard here and there, it is scattered and secondarily. This applies in the case of Mulla Sadra as a great Islamic philosopher more than others. Almost all that Mulla Sadra has pointed out in scattered way on the art and beauty, it has been raised under other subjects, especially love. So in his thought there has become into existence an authentic relationship among art, beauty and love. like other great Islamic mystics and Sufis especially those of school of love and beauty, Mulla Sadra has contemplated beauty and known Almighty God as the absolute beauty and the love as generating from beauty. For him God is the true love and lover and beloved and based on pantheism all being is a manifestation and an image of Infinite Beauty. For Sadra the beauty – like light and existence - is hierarchical. He sees all particles of the universe as having beauty. Mulla Sadra has regarded the earthen and virtual loves and beauties, if they were in divine path, as respectful and valuable. According to the philosophical foundations of Mulla Sadra, love is unity, originality, simplicity and concomitance of existence with attributes of perfection. Love is conceptually evident and he considers it as a universal truth that has characteristics such as beauty, goodness, science, abstraction, power and life. in this study the analytical method has been used and the logical relations of components with each together have been examined.


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