Neke postavke Ibn Sine i Mulla Sadre Širazija o jednoznačnom i višeznačnom poimanju bitka
Some Postulates of Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra Shirazi about the Unambiguous and Ambiguous Concept of Being

Summary/Abstract: Islamic philosophers showed a great interest in the metaphysical heritage, and especially in the understanding of being and its poles. This includes, for example, analogical being, simple being, graded being, synonymous being, reflected or manifested being, necessary and possible being, impossible being, discontinuous being... Furthermore, they devoted themselves deeply to the distinction between essence and existence, potentiality and reality, general and individual. The analysis of the different treatment of these questions in Islamic philosophy shows that roots of the modern understanding of being and existence do not only reach back to scholastic philosophy in its middle phase (Thomas Aquinas or later to Francisco Suarez and Christian Wolff), as many researchers tend to claim, but to a much earlier period. However, we will focus here on some indications of Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra Shirazi about the univocal and equivocal meaning of the concept of existence precisely in order to confirm the aforementioned thesis.

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