Meaning of Life in Mulla Sadra and Paul Tillich

Kheradnameh Sadra Quarterly 66 (2012)
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One of the most important problems of human beings today is the feeling of meaninglessness and fear of absurdity. This paper aims to reveal that, first, Man enjoys a series of inner and epistemological perceptions and is capable of understanding philosophy through the faculty of imagination. Second, it intends to demonstrate that human ontological values are of a beyond-matter nature. Therefore, a human being who has a meaning-seeking and philosophy and knowledge-thirsty essence and follows some values beyond the level of the world of the senses, nature, and matter will never feel absurd and will never suffer from the lack of identity.In this paper, while explaining the components of existence and its quality from the philosophical viewpoints of theist philosophers such as Tillich and Mulla Sadra, the writer deals with the philosophical structures of these two philosophers and the similarities and differences between them. He also takes it into consideration that in the philosophical systems of these two thinkers, meaning accompanies existence, so secularism and meaninglessness appear when meaning is separated from existence. The writer also takes divine and ontological principles into account when analyzing meaningfulness in the philosophical structures of these two philosophers and, at the end, provides some suggestions for further research

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