Clarifying the artistic creation based on Mulla Sadra’s statement about “union of the intellect and intelligible”
- Author:
- Amir Asadollah Bonakdar
- Level:
- Master
- Subject(s):
- Philosophy of Art
- Language:
- Farsi
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Religions
- Year:
- 2019
- Publisher:
- URD Press
- Supervisor(s):
- Ahmad Shahdadi
- Advisor(s):
- Seyyed Razi Mousavi Gilany
According to rule “union of the intellect and intelligible” which is the principal one in the philosophy of Mulla Sadra and is called ” union of the knower and known ” and ” union of the perceiver and the perceived”, contrary to previous philosophers who considered the knowledge as accident and having incarnational position for soul substance , he has known that the modes of perception ( including sense , imaginative and intellectual) are immaterial and have existence form and mode of existence and observed that the soul (spirit) has procession ( emanation) than perceptions. In fact , substantial motion ( change in substance ) of soul (spirit) occurred on the basis of promotion of perceptional stages. It is clear that this special status and the creator of modes of perception toward soul( spirit) have direct effect on formation of personality or spiritual growth of artist who is the origin of creating artistic work. In theoretical analysis of this process, there are two stages : arc of ascent ( curve of ascent) and arc of descent( curve of descent). The stages of soul have been investigated from the first sense perception of soul in fetal period to reaching the stage of relation to ( communication with) active intellect in arc of ascent and thereof to returning to tangible world and creating an actual artistic work in arc of descent. Fictitious world ( imaginal universe ) as intermediary world in the soul which is between sense and intelligible stages is the origin of creativity which is the majesty of God-looking soul of human under divine creativity. But , according to the fact that it is affected by sense world or intelligibla, creativity of human’s imagination brings different result in creating artistic work. Also, in arc of descent , types of artistic formats have been investigated according to the fact by which external sense they are affected and on which senses they affect and the perceptions that they create in soul.