Mental Existence in the Philosophy of Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi

(A study in the ontological and epistemological dimension)

Abstract

The research tagged with (mental existence in the philosophy of Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi, a study in the ontological and epistemological dimension) is concerned with studying the issue of mental existence according to the perspective of Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi (d. 1050 AH) in two dimensions; Ontology and epistemology, so the first of them constitutes a work of proof for this issue, and the second is directed towards the epistemological form and the epistemological value of this existence because of its narration of what is behind it, and its view of reality, and the research in this issue is one of the intractable issues of judgment, and one of the important issues in philosophy; Because it is related to the subject of knowledge and perception, what is meant by mental existence - here - is the essence of things engraved in the mind, which tell what is behind them, and it is one of the two divisions of absolute existence divided into the external and the mental, but it is achieved by analogy, which is our saying: Existence either has effects on it and it is external, and either It does not result in those effects in particular, and it is the mental, and the two sections are opposite to the place of division, for mental existence is only mental in terms of its opposition to the external existence, and its effects do not result in it. And you get that mental presence according to Al-Shirazi is the existence of the thing that does not result in traces, and it comes from the soul according to this way of appearance, and it is called mental and shadow existence.