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The purpose of this article is to create a link between ontology and musical forms. To achieve this goal, Heidegger's fundamental ontology is posed against Deleuze's differential ontology so that the possibilities of this contrast can be used. In this article, with a descriptive-analytical method and a comparative approach, we tried to explain the two types of Heidegger's and Deleuze's ontology by applying it to two musical forms: one fugue and the other ritornello. Thus, Heidegger's world is a fugue that presents the same despite all the variations of the performance of a main musical subject (or a singular voice). Being in this attitude is homogenous and unique. The difference in this way of considering the phenomenon is considered secondary to Being. In this ontology and related concepts, experiences of becoming other, subject movement, becoming a subject due to deterritorialization, the possibility of active participation of people in the whole destiny, and the possibility of changing and reforming the way of life of people are limited. Deleuze's world brings the most different people together in his ontology by resorting to the rhythm and musical form of ritornello. So that at the same time they harmonize, their tonal differences are preserved. Being is the differential. In Deleuze's ontology, with the possibility of territorialism, the way to the subject movement and the possibility of becoming is available. A subject movement in society based on rhythm creates changes in the individual and social relations in which one can expect active participation in determining the destiny of all people. Conditionally, a society is created where people can correct their way of life. The results of this reading and connection show the different social functions of the ontology of the two thinkers.

In his philosophical studies, Heidegger opens a new approach to thinking, which is different from metaphysical thinking, and he refers to it as "existential thinking". According to him, "existential thinking" is a thinking arising from existence and about it, and the source of that existence is as an event. The event itself, as a historical description, is actually a gift of existence in the ages, and thought must be receptive to it. This gift shows itself in poetry; Because language is a condition for the emergence and revelation of the existence of beings. Poetry opens a magazine for the emergence of the truth of existence, and it is the poet and thinker who must protect this emergence. Therefore, "existential thinking" is the same as the essence of poetry, despite the special insight that Heidegger's existential thinking is a way to meditate on existence. It is open to us, there seem to be ambiguities and criticisms of his approach, including the suspicion of limiting the truth of existence to the horizon of time, ambiguity about the stability or modernity of existence, the possibility of any tasteful perception of existence without rational criteria, and finally, the diminution of the role of will and Human free will and submission to a type of predestination and determinism. In this article, we intend to first analyze Heidegger's late "existential thought" foundation and its coordinates with descriptive-analytical method and then criticize Heidegger's approach with a critical approach.

According to ‘Allāmah Ṭabāṭabā’ī's perspective, based on various explanations that also include semantic analysis, (maṣlaḥah) possesses real existence and its realization is subjected to the presence of a requisite and the absence of impediment and deterrent. From this viewpoint, expediency has four modes of existence: external, mental, thing in itself (nafs al-amr), and subjective, and it has a gradational existence. The realm of expediency's realization corresponds to the domains of creation and legislation. Although this interpretation is precise, due to the lack of comprehensiveness in the semantic analysis and the disputable nature of subjective existence, another perspective has been adopted. According to this alternative view, expediency refers to the suitability and appropriateness of any matter with the demands of true reality of a thing. Based on this, the condition for the realization of expediency in all things is not just the existence of a requisite and the absence of impediment and deterrent, but rather the conditions for the realization and existence of the suitability of any matter vary with the demands of various realities. The existence of expediency, in terms of actuality and potentiality, is divided into actual existence (mental and external) and potential existence; in terms of existential matters and matters pertaining to non-absolute nothingness, it is divided into real existence and hypothetical existence; and in terms of gradation and non-gradation, it is divided into gradational and univocal existence.

 Language is a seemingly simple but at the same time very complex phenomenon. Linguists have always tried to understand what language is and provide a definition of it. Among the sages, Mulla Sadra has an ontological view of speech and, relying on his system of jurisprudence, defines language using the principles of the originality of existence, sequence of existence, and substantial motion. The purpose of this article is to provide a descriptive-analytical explanation of Mulla Sadra's view on language but from an angle that is in correspondence and similar to the universe. He introduces language in a system that corresponds perfectly to the universe and it means both with an ascending and descending course, beginning and end, grading and rank, fertility and dynamism, and in proportion and addition with the audience. Part of this correspondence is in the relationship between mind and object. He believes that language and existence are so intertwined that existence is nothing but words.

Research Questions:

Is language an existential truth or a contractual tool?
What is the relationship between language and universe?
What are the areas of similarity and correspondence between language and the universe?

 Mohsen Pirhadi and Alilah Badashti, in the article “Criticism and review of verbal and emotional speech based on transcendental wisdom” compare the views of theologians and Mulla Sadra regarding the verbal or emotional nature of the speech, and its purpose is to investigate whether the divine word is verbal or emotional. However, the following article not only examines speech in divine and human dimensions, but its purpose is to study language in the system of existence.
Maqsood Mahmoudi also examines the views of theologians and Mulla Sadra in the article “Explanation of the attribute of speech, the divine word and the descent of revelation based on the transcendental wisdom “similar to the previous article.
Also, Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Mirdamadi and Seyyed Mehdi Emami Juma, in the article “Philosophical principles and principles of Kalam and Divine Book in the modern ontology of Mulla Sadra” deal with the issue of if we want to consider existence as the Word or Divine Book, what are the characteristics of existence we face. To explain this point of view, he points to thirteen rules for studying the Book of Being, which are necessary to know, such as the unlimitedness of the divine word, the unseenness of the divine word, etc. The purpose of this article is not only to know the divine word, but it considers the language regardless of whether it is divine or not, compared to the characteristics of the universe. 

 The purpose of this article is to examine the similarities and correspondences between the world of existence and speech from Mulla Sadra's point of view, which is done with a comparative approach and descriptive-analytical method. This work has been done through library research and information gathering, and then comparing Mulla Sadra's views in the two areas of existence and speech.

 Just as Mulla Sadra is the founder of a new ruling system regarding the world of existence, he also presents new and creative views on the nature of language, which are completely consistent with the world of existence and can only be understood by knowing his philosophical principles. He introduces words and speech in a structure that, firstly, has unity in connection with the composite mind and secondly, in similarity and correspondence with the universe, it starts from a specific beginning and leads to a specific destination, but this end itself becomes the beginning for Siri. An ascent that ends at the initial origin. This process of descent and ascent occurs in a two-way interaction between the speaker and the listener, and the role of both is important in this matter. Just as the world of existence is multilevel and this is a favor from the Holy Prophet to provide the way of knowledge for human beings, speech also corresponds to the world of existence, it is multilevel and every word leads us to a specific meaning with a specific level. Interaction with the audience makes sense. Existence is constantly giving birth and moving, and speech is a creative gift that invents new sentences and meanings at the foot of the generative existence. In the end, existence and speech are so similar that he considers the universe to be nothing but speech.

"Nihilism" in Nietzsche's speech became a Philosophical problem. He called "nihilism", as "the meaninglessness of everything", criticizing the history of the western metaphysics, he considered Platonism and Christian ethics values to be the most important factors in the emergence of nihilism. Finally, with the creation of "superman" and on the basis of the same "humanist metaphysics", he sought to overcome nihilism. But Heidegger studied "nihilism" not in terms of values, but from an ontological point of view. By criticizing the whole western metaphysical thought, he considered "metaphysics" to indicate a kind of relationship with Being in which Being itself sinks behind a curtain of veils into the abyss of oblivion and neglect. In an ontological explanation, he considers "nihilism" to be equivalent to this "neglect and forgetfulness of Being" and on this basis, he introduces "the history of Western thought" as "the history of nihilism development". From this point of view, with the perfection of metaphysics, more perfect manifestations of nihilism are also realized. As far as today, in the "Technological Enframing" which is the final form of metaphysics, "technological nihilism" has determined the world and man in a nihilistic form, in the mood of ordering as standing-reserve. According to Heidegger, in facing this situation, we have no more than two options, either to submit to a complete destruction or to find a way to overcome it.

Heidegger and Foucault, two influential thinkers of the 20th century, addressed the fundamental issues from different perspectives. In recent years, researches has been done on the relationship between Heidegger and Foucault on various topics in contemporary Western philosophy. One of the most important topics that can be the subject of the encounter is the question of "technology". Heidegger's essay The Question Concerning Technology (1954) and Foucault's book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of Prison (1975) will be the main subject for the encounter and perhaps the interaction of these two thinkers in this article. To understand technology from the perspective of these two thinkers, one must begin with being and power as the basis and background of this encounter.By examining the history of Being, Heidegger reveals different manifestations of the revelation of being. He claims that technology is a way of the revelation of being in modernity, in which beings are revealed as objects. The basis of Foucault's thinking is also the question of power. He examines the relationship between power and technology and leads us from the analysis of the relationship between technology and power to one of the forms of technology, which he calls disciplinary technology. According to Foucault, technology is a disciplinary network of power and knowledge relations that turns humans into subjects by shaping general practices and mechanisms. Therefore, Starting from two different bases (being and power), we thus arrive at the common discussion of technology and then at the parallel concepts of Gestell and discipline. By explaining the function of the Gestell, Heidegger shows how modern technology transforms nature and things into objects and standing reserve (Bestand) through a kind of challenging and discipline, revealing the methods of objectifying of things and nature. At the center of Heidegger's philosophy of technology is the idea that modern technology, "enframing" (Gestell), has changed our relationship to the world and to ourselves. He argues that modern technology is not just a tool or an instrument, but a pervasive force that shapes our entire way of being .For Heidegger, technology reveals itself as a mode that reveals or brings forth truth. It frames the world in a certain way and reduces everything to a calculable and manipulable standing reserve. This instrumental understanding of technology obscures its essence and prevents us from experiencing the world in a more authentic and meaningful way. Heidegger is of the opinion that such an understanding of technology leads to an oblivion of being, in which man is separated from his true essence and the deeper meaning of being. He calls for a reflexive attitude towards technology that enables us to establish a more authentic relationship to the world and to our own being.     Foucault's analysis of power and technology focuses on the ways in which power is exercised through disciplinary technologies in modern societies. He explores how power is exercised not only through direct coercion, but also through systems of control and normalization. Foucault introduces the concept of disciplinary power, which operates through various techniques and technologies to regulate individuals and populations. Disciplinary technologies include institutions such as prisons, schools, hospitals and factories, as well as techniques of surveillance, classification and examination. These disciplinary technologies create a network of power relations that shape and control people’s bodies, behaviors, and identities. They produce specific forms of knowledge, norms, and subjectivities, exerting power over individuals' lives and shaping their understanding of themselves and society.Foucault argues that disciplinary technologies are deeply intertwined with modern forms of knowledge and social control. They serve to enforce conformity, maintain social order and uphold dominant power structures. In his analysis, power is not only imposed from above, but is distributed throughout society and operates at different levels and through different mechanisms. On the other hand, Foucault tries to pay more attention to how subjects are made by technology than to how objects are made by technology. 

After this encounter, the final section sets out the similarities and differences between Heidegger's and Foucault's readings of technology issue, drawing on the opinions of commentators such as Sawicki, Dreyfus, Rayner, Sinnerbrink, and Lagdameo. These similar and different aspects sometimes bring the two thinkers closer and sometimes further apart, resulting from Heidegger's ontological encounter with technology as opposed to Foucault's genealogical encounter with technology. The presence of similarities, however, encourages the reader to merely trace the possible influence of Heidegger on Foucault's thinking about technology. The presence of differences can be also reduced to considering technology on two levels: ontological (Heidegger) and ontic (Foucault), but as a conclusion, this opinion is strengthened: Foucault's narrative of technology (especially disciplinary technology) is not a copy.  The repetition is rather a determined, concrete version and completion of Heidegger's analysis of technology. This shows that although two thinkers have taken different paths (being and power) in the discussion of technology, by taking up the discussion of power and technology, Foucault brings technology into complex, multi-layered relationships. By discussing the disciplinary institutions and techniques of biopolitics, he expands technology ontological dimension (in Heidegger). In this sense, technology as a way of revealing of being in modernity, which begins with Heidegger, is developed, completed, and strengthened in Foucault along the same path but in a different way (with a concrete and historical approach).

Heidegger holds that, although Western philosophy begins with an inquisition of the meaning of Being as the purpose of Metaphysics, at the time, perverted by Plato, and the history of forgetting Being begins from that time. According to Heidegger, the crisis of European sciences and the death of meaning is caused by ontological nihilism. It initiates from the metaphysical dualism that has occurred during centuries of philosophizing due to the disregard of the concept of Being and the obfuscation of this most fundamental thing. Heidegger conceives that with hermeneutical and phenomenological analysis of Dasein as the primary habitat in which the first and most fundamental problem of philosophy, What is Metaphysics?, has become a new way of philosophizing, before the thinkers of the epoch to get rid of this "great desert that Every day expands" (Nietzsche's famous expression, which Heidegger analyzed in the book What is Metaphysics?). This inquiry attempts to examine the characteristics and goals of Heidegger's hermeneutical phenomenology in the criticism of previous philosophies and in line with fundamental ontology, which is a drawing for understanding Being.

The aim of this paper is to analyse opinions of Kierkegaard in his famous book, Fear and Trembling, and Heidegger’s points of view in the great work of thought, Being and Time, in order to present a new meaning of human. And these all going to introduce the new aspect of Ethic. Kierkegaard puts the act of the faith against of the virtue ethics according to the tale of Abraham in the Bible. He claims that the act of the faith transcends from general ethic with achieve its individuality. The actor of the faith can not returns to generality, as the actor of tragedy can. He leaves the generality to make decision in a free manner. on the other hand, Heidegger’s existancial analyses leads into that the human determiner is not an ideal essence, but it’s his existance, in other word it’s his ability-to-be. Human is who he can be. So it is obvious that these two great thinkers believe that human is not a predestined being, but he is facilities. And for this reason we can renew our definition of the ethic.

The principle of “coining words for the spirit of meaning in the Holy Qur’ān” in Mullā Ṣadrā’s works is closely related to his philosophy. Therefore, considering the Sadrian ontology as the basis, one can learn about the ontological applications of the meanings of words and, thus, the quality of attaining the knowledge of them. In Mullā Ṣadrā’s view, the world, the Qur’ān, and the holy prophetic existence are three dimensions of the world that share a single and simple existence at the level of their “unfolded existence”, “immediate divine word”, and “Mohammedan truth”. They have dispersed at the level of the lower kingdom and are manifested in the form of the world of particular Ideas, the verbal Qur’ān, and the existence of the Holy Prophet (ṣ), respectively, and then descend to the world of matter. Mullā Ṣadrā believes that each lower level is an example of a higher level, and words are not an exception to this rule. In order to access the highest level of divine words, one should employ the principle of coining words for different types of meanings (absolute and general). Mullā Ṣadrā’s definition of spirit of meaning conforms with his definition of the natural universal and Platonic Ideas. The application and generalizability of the spirit of meaning in comparison to the natural universal originates in the limitedness of quiddity, while, in comparison to Platonic universals, it originates in existential amplitude. A comparison of the spirit of meaning and natural universals indicates that coinage of words is a human phenomenon, and the criterion for coining each word is the truth.

Aristotle’s ousia suffered the same fate it had in the West when it arrived in ancient Iran and the world of Islam. Among all the existing appropriate equivalents, the term “substance” was chosen as its nearest equivalent in western philosophical texts. Similarly, the term “jawhar”, which is the Arabic for “gawhar” in Persian and a close equivalent for substance, was accepted by all philosophers in the world of Islam. In previous translated works before and after the translation movement in Baghdad’s Dar al-Tarjumah (Translation House), there were some words such as ayn, inniyyat, huwiyyat, and budish which implied almost the true meaning of ousia as intended by Aristotle. This was because this term has been derived from the verb to be and basically means existent, essence, or being; however, jawhar and substance were the ultimate choices of translators. The dominance of this substantialist view, both in the West and in the East, was partly because of the early translations of Aristotle’s works. This paper aims to, firstly, examine the fate of Aristotles’s ousia upon its arrival in Iran and the world of Islam and, then, discuss the relationships between the meanings of the chosen equivalents in the Islamic world with those of their western equivalents.

In this article, we analyze the basic role of finitude in Heidegger and Foucault’s philosophy. We argue that finitude makes possible Heidegger’s concept of being and the history of being as well as Foucault’s concept of the modernity and the entire history of western thinking in later Foucault. To accomplish this objective, we conduct the following: We analyze the basic finitude in Heidegger’s ontology; We explain “analytic of finitude” in early Foucault’s work namely the birth of the clinic and the order of things; We describe Foucault’s interpretation of Heidegger’s formulation of finitude; We specify the place of partial and relative nothingness in Heidegger and Foucault’s approach to human finitude; We explain that individuality, resistance, truth and historicity are possible by finitude in philosophy of them; And finally, we analyze how Foucault meets Heidegger in passing epistemological understanding of finitude and arriving at practical understanding of self-finitude and outlining the history of being.

Theory means claiming the inclusion of truth, and action is redefined as the final goal of liberation and evolution. But Judging the content of theory and the liberating aspect of action practically relies on offering a clear design of the foundations of the theory-practice relationship, so that neither too much attention is paid to action, and theory is changed in favor of action nor is theory overemphasized through critical distancing from shortcomings. Existence is the most important foundation that guides human identity and the category of cognition, and coexistence with them determines the aspects of the relationship between theory and action. This article seeks to explore the unifying foundations of theory and practice in Imam's intellectual system through analytical and documentary method. According to Imam's thoughts, since existence is based on justice, and the essence of justice is established in referring to the content of existence i.e., the relationship among its layers, there is a possibility for a new design of the problem of cognition and human beings based on the truth of justice i.e. non-dualism. This system of thought intrinsically justifies the aspects of the theory of change and social and liberating action within the context of the conflict between the recruited troops of reason and ignorance with regard to the goal of achieving the transcendent existence.

"Question of Being" is Martin Heidegger's most famous concern throughout his intellectual life. This question, according to his own narrative, has started from the very beginning to the moment of his death, and all of his writings can be traced back to this question. However, understanding the meaning, significant and formal structure of the question of being, is essentially based on an understanding of the way Heidegger use the Phenomenon of "question" and its relation to the essence of human beings. The present paper’s goal is to illuminate Heidegger's approach to this fundamental element by laying down the general meaning horizon of "question" in the history of philosophy, so that the how and why of using “Question” in his early works come to light. To do this, first, the significance, the nature and the central role of the question in the history of philosophy will be briefly examined, and then, after discussing Heidegger's conception of this phenomenon in Being and Time, and his early courses, formulation of Questioning will be provided.

Martin Heidegger, the famous German philosopher of the twentieth century, is one of the most important existence philosophers. For Heidegger, the most fundamental question is the question of "existence," which, unfortunately, has always been overlooked due to the much attention to beings instead of existence. But this question can find its answer only by examining and recognizing the only questioner of the existence, Dasein. Dasein means the concrete existence or "being-in-the-world." What is meant by the "world" is not the world of physical objects or the world around us, but it refers to our preoccupations and interests, which, contrary to what commonly believed, not only are not in opposition to man, but constitute inherently the other side of the coin of human existence and consequently, they are inseparable from him.

In his Illuminationist Hikmatic System, Suhrawardi started from himself and his intuitive self-conscousness and then he reached at the God. On the one hand, he found the identity of himself and his light causes as “presence by oneself”, and on the other hand, he explained the agency (origin-ness) and the other-consciousness of substantial lights by illuminationist relation. According to those parts of the philosopher’s constructive works which are devoted to the explanation of the identity and determination of the status of illumination and intuition in the spheres of existence and cognition, one can conclude that “existence” and “presence” are identical in Suhrawardi’s philosophy and the necessary generality of this function can be proven based on the self-consciousness and other-consciousness of the Light of Lights. By this approach, any possible gap between ontology and epistemology are systematically overcome. In fact, by tracing the knowledge by correspondence (mediated) back to the knowledge by presence (immediate), by founding the human cognition upon the intuitive necessity and certainty, Suhrawardi left behind the challenge of unrecognizability of correspondence between known-by-itself (the subjective) and known-by-something-else (the objective), and explained the recognition of personal identity.

Heidegger and Mulla Sadra’s views on the “transcendental identity of human” can be examined comparatively. In this comparison, conformities and differences are obtained. The forms of affinities are as follows: First, both believe in a single meaning of transcendence in After explaining the conceptual, systematic ambiguity and individual (particular) unity of existence, the author has reached the conclusion that the above-mentioned basic drawback has not been included Ṣadr-ol-Mote'allehin’s argument on the immediate apprehension of God is based on the systematic ambiguity unity of existence, while the basic drawback which is related to individual oneness (particular unity) unity is still existed and for the structural problems, it has been stated that although the proof of this kind of immediate apprehension for God has methodological weaknesses, but the final opinion of Ṣadr-ol-Mote'allehin is the same synoptic (collective) knowledge while discovering (unveiling) in detail what is immediate apprehension and then the theory of Professor Fayyazi about the inferred knowledge (attained knowledge) of God to the creatures before creation has been examined.

The issues related to the word of "Haqq" and its usages in the Holy Qur'an have such an extent and capacity that can establish the foundations and framework of a philosophical system. In this regard, with this orientation, after referring to the literal meaning of "Haqq" and its components (fixation, necessity, and survival) as well as the terminological meanings of "Haqq" in the Quran (ontological, epistemological and moral truths), this article, by reviewing the uses of the term "Haqq", has presented seven ontological principles in the Holy Qur'an, according to Allameh Tabatabaei in Al-Mizan. There are principles such as: God, is the perfect sample of "Haqq"; other Creatures are from God, under His control, shall return to Him. During these discussions, we have also tried to answer this question that if it is possible to conclude ontological facts from a linguistic reality based on one or another language.

For Spinoza, God or Substance is a unique and absolute fact. He acclaims that his essence is enough to prove the actual and real existence of god. Spinoza explains this point in the eleventh proposition in the MORAL book and then he supports this proposition by four types of proofs and trying to prove the existence of God. His proofs are expressing the necessity of God's existence through his essence imagination, his absolute ability to being and create the beings that it is due to the lack of obstacle for his being. Then it is possible to imagine the God as the most complete and infinite essential being. Indeed, all of his proofs are reduced and referenced to the clear and determined imagination in Descartes that it can be deduced the existence of God from his imagination. Finally, the proofs of Spinoza are either rebuilding of previous proofs or repeating them that they are presented independently in one proposition with some small differences