"Individuation" From Ghias-al-Din Mansur Dashtaki's Perspective Based on Transcendent Philosophy

Abstract

In most of the philosophical books, the issue of "Individuation" and the determination of its criteria have been discussed about which various statements have been made by philosophers. This research aims to examine the opinion of "Ghiyas al-Din Mansur Dashtaki Shirazi", one of the philosophers in the Shiraz Philosophical School, regarding Individuation. With deliberation on the works of this philosopher on the basis of Sadrian thought and by a descriptive-analytical method, it turned out that Ghiyas al-Din considers "Individuation" as a mentally posited issue and amongst the Secondary Intelligibles. Moreover, he considered it as redundant to the quiddity and relevant to the identity of the object; in the sense that it does not have an independent existence outside and is the same as the individual quiddity. Ghiyas al-Din considers the stability of human personality in this world and the hereafter as the continuation of its quiddity and in regard to the cause of human Individuation he has been contradicting himself. What placed Ghiyas al-Din in opposition to Mulla Sadra, is that the basis of his view of Individuation is the principality of quiddity while that of Mulla Sadra is the principality of existence.