رابطه شناخت شناسي با هستي شناسي

The Relationship between Epistemology and Ontology

Nowadays epistemology is a familiar term to philosopheers and all of them are acquainted with its problems in proportion to their background knowledge. A few centuries after the birth of this science and with the everincreasing expansion of its related issues in the west, our philosophy has also had some share in this ergard in recent years and taken notice of the discussions related to knowledge in different ways following a new approach. Everyone, has tried to demonstrate the "fact exposing" facet of science. For example in a series of articles written recently, it has been tried to relate epistemology to some ontological issues such as the principiality of being or the principiality of quiddity, the gradation of existence, the principle of the One, the possibility of the noblest etc. This paper is in fact a critique of such a method of demonstration. After explaining and evaluating this method the writer deals with Shaykh Ishraqʹs theory on vision and sense perception in general. Following a short reference to Mulla Sadraʹs ideas in this regard, he evaluates Suhrawardiʹs theory on justifying the "concordance" between the nand and the world of reality as being more powerful and revealing than other theories. However this does not mean that the problem has been solved and in fact there is still a long way to go to come up with a straight forward solution. After the introduction, this paper covers the following titles: the principiality of existence and concordance, criticism and speculation, Illuminationist ontology and the theory of knowledge a reference to Mulla Sadraʹs thoughts and the final note. In the last part and after concluding the paper the writer has found it fruitful to discuss one of Mulla Sadraʹs reasons for refuting the argument of shabah which could indicate the concordance between the essence and the mind.