The Sadr al-Din Muhammad Dashtaki, on the Ontological Primacy of existence or quiddity

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1 Professor of Shiraz Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran University

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Shiraz University, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

Abstract

The problem of the ontological primacy of existence or quiddity was mentioned in the works of philosophers before Mulla Sadra, but not as a distinct and independent problem. It is said that the Illuminationist Philosophers insisted on the ontological primacy of quiddity but the Peripatetics emphasized that of experience. In his commentary on the Qushchi's commentary on Tajrid, Sadr al-Din Muhammad Dashtaki (d. 1524), the founder of the Shiraz Philosophical School, repeatedly implied the primacy of quiddity. things. Following Shahab al-Din Yahya Suhriwardi, Dashtaki provides arguments in favor of existence to be mentally posited. In other words, the real created thing is quiddity. The reality of God (the necessary existent) is neither existence nor quiddity. The real things are united with essence not existence. In addition, individualation is based on the mode of our conception, not on existence. In this paper, first, I examine his arguments in this relation, and then I show that neither those arguments nor their implications are valid.

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