دانشگاه تبریز مجله پژوهش های فلسفی 2251-7960 12 24 2018 09 23 The Paradigmatic Significance of Perception in Mullā Ṣadrā’s Philosophy of Being The Paradigmatic Significance of Perception in Mullā Ṣadrā’s Philosophy of Being 115 143 7994 FA آنتونی ف. شاکر متخصص در مؤسسه مطالعات اسلامی مک گیل کانادا former Visiting Scholar at the Islamic Studies, McGill University, Canada Journal Article 2018 10 20 <em>Ṣadrā presents the usefulness of the faculties of perception governed by the intellect as a fitting paradigm for understanding man’s being in the world in relation to the divine purpose and source of this being. Perception raises challenging questions which, while peripheral to philosophy proper, have contributed to the debate on knowing and being. Dating back to the Presocratics, this debate came to a head in Islamicate civilization, where perception played a paradigmatic role that also put civilization, on a human scale, at the forefront of the philosophical enterprise. Contemporary historians of thought obscure this role when their interpretations of past traditions are too heavily colored by the positivist conception of perception.</em> <em>Ṣadrā presents the usefulness of the faculties of perception governed by the intellect as a fitting paradigm for understanding man’s being in the world in relation to the divine purpose and source of this being. Perception raises challenging questions which, while peripheral to philosophy proper, have contributed to the debate on knowing and being. Dating back to the Presocratics, this debate came to a head in Islamicate civilization, where perception played a paradigmatic role that also put civilization, on a human scale, at the forefront of the philosophical enterprise. Contemporary historians of thought obscure this role when their interpretations of past traditions are too heavily colored by the positivist conception of perception.</em> https://philosophy.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_7994_54e2513cba38f983528fc2a9bff96686.pdf