The Way of Realization of Philosophical Concepts in Peripatetic Philosophy

In the modern era, we frequently see readings of Peripatetic philosophy on the basis of Mulla Sadran view and New-Mulla Sadran views for the idea of ‘the way of realization of philosophical concepts’, readings that are rejected and not defendable according to the bases of Peripatetic philosophy and the extant works as well as the readings of the most prominent expositors and critiques of Peripatetic philosophy, including Mulla Sadra. Today, those views are often attributed to Peripatetic philosophers; they consider philosophical concepts existing in the external world in the form of analytical accident and united to the carrier of the accident. However, referring to the extant works of Peripatetic philosophers leads us to a series of bases in Peripatetic philosophy according to which Peripatetic philosophy lacks, in principle, the capacity to propose the theory of analytical accident and unity of accident and its carrier; besides, according o the same bases, the mode of existence of the accidents is merely possible in concrete form. It is, however, necessary to note that, as we find in Avicenna’s works, he sometimes believes in the unity of several contradictory concepts in a single one. We evaluate this view as the rare and uncommon view in Peripatetic philosophy; however, the same view was known as the common view on the way philosophical concepts are realized.