Metaphysical Investigations

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The important German thinker Heidegger and the great Iranian philosopher Mulla Sadra have both made "existence" and the way it is perceived central to their thinking and philosophy. Heidegger argues that the period of Western metaphysics from Plato to the modern age is entirely a period of neglect of existence; because existence in it, find a conceptual and categorical form, and its reality is hidden. Mulla Sadra also believes that most of the earlier philosophers were involved in the discussion of essence and somehow marginalized existence. In this respect, the way they both look at the issue of existence is in many ways the same; In particular, both thinkers emphasize the need for a non-conceptual and presential view of existence and deny conceptual and categorical understanding of it, or at least do not consider such a view to be an accurate and complete view. Of course, due to the difference in specific culture and intellectual space of each of these two thinkers, there are some differences between their thinking in the discussion of existence and its perception, as the difference between the two in the issue of nothingness is also significant.

Keywords: Heidegger, Mulla Sadra, Existence, Existent, Essence, Nothingness, Knowledge, Presential.

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