Document Type : Scientific Research

Authors

• Sayyed Mahdi ImamiJome ¹
• Jamal Ahmadi ²

¹ Associate Professor, University of Isfahan

² M.A student in Philosophy of Religion, University

Abstract

Mulla Sadra has discussed about aesthetics in different sections in his writings. He introduces different criteria to recognize the beauty in different objects. The main question of this study is to find Mulla Sadra’s aesthetic criteria and to consider whether these criteria were formal or were toward the content and inner side of the objects. To do so, with respect to the Mulla Sadra’s writings, we categorized aesthetic criteria into two categories of criteria related to the form and those related to the content and then considered the relation between these two categories as well as their relation to the Mulla Sadra’a principle of wisdom. The result shows that in Sadra’s view and according to the hierarchy of the being, the beauty of all beings ends in the absolute divine beauteis and divine names are the causes of all beauty of the universe. The knowledge about these divine names can conduct human to the knowledge of the beauty of objects and as a result, all Mulla Sadra’s criteria related to the form and content refer to the divine names. In fact, beauty starts with divine names and reveals after passing the stages of gradation of existence and enters into the content first and then flows into the form and appearance of objects.

Keywords

• "Transcendental Philosophy"
• "Aesthetics"
• "Art"
• "Form"
• "Content"
• "Divine names"

Main Subjects

• falsafe molasadra