Document Type : Scientific Research
Authors
1 Ph. D Student of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Allama Tabatabei Univesity, Tehran, Iran.
2 Professor of Philosophy, Allama Tabatabei Univesity, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
In discussing about motion, the possibility or impossibility of motion in abstract beings is one of the central problems. This problem has a strong relation to the problem of reality of chaos and first matter. Peripatetic philosophers, in one hand, through arguments, such as “argument by potentiality and actuality” and “separation- connection proof’ have assert that the chaos is a real corporeal being. Because abstract beings are, according to them, devoid of matter, they have founded the reality of motion on the material reality of the chaos. So, they rejected the existence of motion in abstract beings. By contrast, many contemporary philosophers rejected the arguments about real existence of the chaos, and denied the correlation between real chaos and existence of motion, and, so, they have asset the possibility of motion in abstract beings. The other essential problem, that its solution come after the problem of ‘possibility of motion in the abstract beings’ is the problem of ‘substantial motion in the soul’ and the problem of ‘evolution of soul in isthmus life and resurrection’.
Keywords
- Chaos
- Potentiality and Actuality
- Motion in the Abstract Beings
- substantial Motion in the Soul
- Evolution in the Isthmus
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