Document Type : Research Article / Original Article

Authors

• فاطمه فلاح نژاد ¹
• Hamid parsania ²
• Hossein kacoian ²

¹ دانشگاه تهران

² Sociology, Social Sciences, University of Tehran

Abstract

The disjunction between subject and object is one of the fundamental issues of modern philosophy, which began with the thought of Descartes and was subsequently reproduced in various forms in German idealism and phenomenology. In this tradition, the role of imagination has either been completely eliminated or reduced to a certain degree of degradation; which ultimately paved the way for the emergence of the crisis of meaning and nihilism in the modern world. In contrast, Mulla Sadra, by explaining the position of imagination as an intermediary not only in the field of epistemology but also in the field of ontology, provides the possibility of overcoming this crisis. In transcendental wisdom, imagination is used in two meanings: "connected imagination" and "disconnected imagination", which on the one hand establishes the connection between the "world of matter" and the "world of reason" and on the other hand establishes the connection between "partial" and "total" perception. This article attempts to show how the evolution of the meaning of imagination and how it is faced in the modern tradition and transcendental wisdom affects the issue of the crisis of meaning, and how rethinking the place of imagination in Mulla Sadra's philosophical system can, by emphasizing particular and concrete matters, provide a new perspective for overcoming this crisis.

Keywords

• Transcendental wisdom
• connected imagination
• disconnected imagination
• the soul
• the discontinuity of subject and object
• the crisis of meaning

Main Subjects

• Presenting an original critical discussion about the nature of the modern humanities and determining its relationship with religion