The possibility of moving from one category to another based on the principality of existence

Articles in Press

Document Type : Original Article

Author

• Abdul Ali Shekar

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Shiraz University

10.22067/epk.2025.90603.1383

Abstract

The main issue of the upcoming article is whether movement can be transferred from one category which is the highest genus to another category and the other highest genus.According to the sages, the impossible revolution is to change the essence of something to the essence of something else according to the meaning and concept. But based on the principality of the existence, there is an intensifying motion happens in the analogical gradation of the existence. This is despite the fact that in the past, the categories were considered completely different from each other in such a way that they considered it impossible to transfer from one category to another. Since by accepting the principality of existence, the essence is united with the existence and follows it, with the changes of the analogical gradation of the existence, and the abstraction of the essence for each hierarchical degrees, the essence will also be transformed and changed accordingly. Also, based on the theory of the corporeally created and the spiritual survival of the human soul, it is true that the human soul is transferred from the physical stage as a material category (one of the substantive categories) to the stage of intellectual substance as immaterial category (another substantive category) through substantial movement. In the discussion of the embodiment of deeds, human behavior, which is in the accidental categories, due to repetition, turns into mental long-term dispositions, which is in the field of substantial categories.

Keywords

• Movement-in categories
• essential transformation
• principality of existence
• perfection of soul
• embodiment of deeds
• Mulla Sadra

Main Subjects

• Islamic Philosophy and Kalam

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