Animals′ knowledge and Perception from the Point of View of Sadraii Wisdom

Document Type : Research Article

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1 Associate Professor, Payame Noor University, Mashhad, Iran.

2 Researcher, Khavaran Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran.

Abstract

Animal enjoy knowledge and perception according to the Islamic philosophy. In order to study the question of knowledge and perception of animals, this survey has been done from the view point of philosophy of transcendent wisdom. Transcendent wisdom is an ontological philosophy. This reflective system bestows the originality to existence. In light of this outlook, what – so – ever covers the arena of the Being, is existence and the essences are virtual. The existence is the realization of Divine Action. Existence is gradational. Each level and stage includes the whole perfections of its own inferior level and exempted from the limits of the inferior existence. This very level and stage is in turn comprehended by the superior level to this own level. Inanimate bodies, animals, and human being enjoy perfection of existence of its own level. Both perfection and existence are one reality, and they are in such a position that the more intensified the existence is, the more evident the perfection is. Animal enjoys perfection according to its existential level. One of these perfections is knowledge, because it is predicated on existence as it is existence. The gradation of existence realizes in every level, so the perfections in any level of existence are gradational. Animals are the possessors of knowledge. Knowledge in animals is gradational. Animals can be subjected to the education, but animal’s knowledge is imaginary and sensory. Animals are able to be in the course of education with imaginary and sensory methods and develop the level of their own knowledge.

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SADRĀ’I WISDOM
Volume 7, Issue 1 - Serial Number 13
December 2018
Pages 129-137

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  • Receive Date: 14 June 2016
  • Revise Date: 28 May 2018
  • Accept Date: 22 September 2018

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