نوع مقاله : علمی - پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
This study compares and analyzes the perspectives of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the French phenomenological philosopher, and Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Shirazi (Mulla Sadra), the founder of Transcendental Wisdom, on sensory perception. Both philosophers share important points in common, transcending the traditional mind-object dichotomy and emphasizing the central role of the body/soul in understanding sensory perception. However, this study argues that their fundamental philosophical frameworks—existential phenomenology focused on the lived body and the pre-reflective lifeworld in Merleau-Ponty, and Transcendental Wisdom emphasizing the gradational unity of being, the levels of the soul, and the transcendental goal of knowledge in Mulla Sadra—lead to profound differences in explaining the nature, origin, and goal of sensory perception. Merleau-Ponty considers perception to be the fundamental mode of being-in-the-world and the direct encounter of the lived body with the sensible world, while Mulla Sadra considers sensory perception to be the lowest level of the soul's path of perfection towards abstract worlds and, ultimately, the intuition of rational truths through communication with the active intellect. This article, while highlighting these differences and commonalities, contributes to the enrichment of cross-cultural dialogue in philosophy.
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