Reflection on Explaining the Ultimate Cause and its Unity with the Destination
The 'ultimate cause' is among the important key issues in discussions of 'cause and effect' in Islamic philosophy, on which the discussion on the goal of creation is dependent. In the Islamic philosophy, first, the ultimate cause has been interpreted as the knowledge of destination and, similarly, the ultimate cause and the destination have been regarded as equal realities. This has caused certain difficulties and ambiguities in philosophical discussions. This article, in the section on the nature of the ultimate cause, criticizes knowledge as the ultimate cause and accepts affection, proclivity and the like. It also criticizes the unity of the ultimate cause and the destination to offer a better and more precise explanation wherein the ultimate cause and the destination are two completely different things, while they are somehow interrelated, and not all agents and actions have necessarily an ultimate cause or destination.
- حق عضویت دریافتی صرف حمایت از نشریات عضو و نگهداری، تکمیل و توسعه مگیران میشود.
- پرداخت حق اشتراک و دانلود مقالات اجازه بازنشر آن در سایر رسانههای چاپی و دیجیتال را به کاربر نمیدهد.