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The Transcendent Philosophy of the Four Journeys of the Intellect
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The Transcendent Philosophy of the Four Journeys of the Intellect (Arabic:الحكمة المتعالية في الاسفار العقلية الاربعة; Hikmat al-muta‘aliya fi-l-asfar al-‘aqliyya al-arba‘a), known as Four Journeys, is an extended compendium of Islamic philosophy written by the 17th century Islamic scholar, Mulla Sadra, In which he attempted to reach Sufism and prove the idea of Unity of Existence by offering a new intake and perspective on Peripatetic philosophy that was offered by Alpharabius and Avicenna in the Islamic world. The book explains his philosophy of transcendent theosophy. It was first published in print in 1865 in Tehran in four volumes, where it was accompanied by a commentary on three of the volumes by Hadi Sabzavari (1797–1893). To date, no notable, critical English translation of the book has been made.
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Again, what reaches unto its Perfector and attaches itself to Him is safe against corruption, all the more so if even during disconnection from Him it has not undergone corruption. Wherefore the soul after death shall ever remain and continue unwavering [and undying] and attached to this noble essence, which is called generic universal mind, and in the language of the lawgivers the Divine Knowledge. As to the other…
Avicenna, A Compendium on the Soul
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The comprehension of these we call knowledge; for which reason science is the binary number. But opinion is the ternary; for that rationally follows from comprehension. The objects of opinion are many things, and the ternary number denotes a multitude, as "Thrice happy Grecians"; for which reason Pythagoras admits the ternary. This sect of philosophers is called the Italic, by reason Pythagoras started his school in…
Plutarch, Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3
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I have spent nearly forty years of my pilgrimage in two or three corners of this world seeking the philosopher's stone that is called Truth. I have consulted all the adepts of antiquity, Epicurus and Augustine, Plato and Malebranche, and I have remained in my poverty. Maybe in all these philosophers' crucibles there are one or two ounces of gold; but all the rest is residue, dull mud, from which nothing can be born…
Voltaire, Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
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Related ideas
- Avicenna
- Persian language
- Mulla Sadra
- Iran
- Avicennism
- Ulama
- Islamic philosophy
- Ash'arism
- Cosmology
- Ibn Arabi
- Kalam
- Illuminationism
- Iranian philosophy
- Sufism
- Sufi metaphysics
- Reality
- Essentialism
- Peripatetic school
- Tehran
- Allah
- Arabic
- English language
- Existentialism
- Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi
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Part of Illuminationism.
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