A Report of the 16th Conference on Commemorating Mulla Sadra
07.10.2012
The annual National Conference of
“Man and the World in the Transcendent Philosophy” was
held on the Mulla Sadra Day on Monday 21st May 2012 in
Niyayesh Complex for International Conferences.
This Conference was opened at 8.00
am with reciting some verses from the holy Qur’an and a
speech by Professor Seyyed Mohammed Khamenei. The
purposes of this Conference are to expand Mulla Sadra’s
theoretical and practical philosophy, cosmology, and
anthropology, introducing them to Iranian-Islamic
society, and institutionalizing wisdom in individual and
social life. The Sadra Islamic Philosophy Institute and
the Sadra International Society have always sought to
study such issues and disseminate them.
This year’s Conference, like
always, was welcomed by a large group of university
students, professors and researchers in the field of
philosophy, and particularly those interested in Mulla
Sadra’s philosophy and Iranian Islamic Philosophy. The
major themes of Man and the World Conference included:
1. Anthropology (Man’s place in the integrated order of
the world, the dignity and rights of man as the divine
vicegerent, perfect man’s truth and role, comparative
studies of anthropology in the Transcendent philosophy
and other schools of philosophy and a critique of them);
2. Cosmology (cosmology in the Transcendent Philosophy,
place of matter in the Transcendent philosophy and
philosophy of technology, basic principles of empirical
sciences in the Transcendent Philosophy); 3. Place and
role of philosophy and wisdom in portraying the
integrated order of the world, and other related topics.
The 16th Conference on
Commemorating Mulla Sadra was held in four sessions
during which 21 speeches were delivered. In the first
session, the first speaker was Professor Seyyed Mohammed
Khamenei, President of the Sadra Islamic Philosophy
Institute, the Sadra International Society, and the
Scientific Society of History of Philosophy. He made a
speech on the “Outlook of the Mutual Relationship
between Man and the World.” Dr. Reza Dawari Ardakani
(President of the Sciences Culture House of the Islamic
Republic of Iran) and Dr. Seyyed Mustafa Muhaqqiq Damad
(law Professor at Shahid Beheshti University) were the
next speakers. The subjects of their speeches were “Man
in the History of Philosophy” and “Manifestation of
Divine Word in Nature in Mulla Sadra”, respectively.
In later sessions some university
professors and masters at Qum Seminary delivered their
speeches, some of which are as follows:
- A Comparative Study of Man’s
Dignity and Rights in the Transcendent Philosophy and
Humanistic Schools
- Man’s Relationship with the
Realm of Being in Mulla Sadra and Heidegger
- Holy Architecture, Embodiment of
the Principle of Correspondence between Man and the
World
- Human Truth, All- inclusive and
Intermediate Existence
- Man’s Divine Vicegerency in
Mulla Sadra’s Philosophy
- Man and the World
- Love of the Essence of the Order
of Being in the Transcendent Philosophy
- Man and the World, or Ontology,
Psychology, Epistemology, and the Role of Classifying
them
- Culture as the Outcome of the
Relationship between Man and the World
- Trans-substantial Motion as the
basis of the Integration of Being
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