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TY  _  JOUR
ID  -  13980507191140
TI  -  The Relationship between the Pillars of Wisdom and Utopia in Suhrawardi and Plato
JO  -  History of Philasophy
JA  -  ES
LA  -  fa
SN  -  2008-9589
AU  -  Rahimian Saeed 
AD  -  دانشگاه شيراز
Y1  -  2019
PY  -  2019
VL  -  3
IS  -  
SP  -  77
EP  -  98
KW  -  higher world
Illuminationist knowledge
ideal state (utopia)
leadership of state

DO  -  
N2  -  The idea of utopia entails extensive discussions with a history as long as the history of humanity. Plato was the first philosopher who portrayed utopia in a philosophical mould. On the other hand, in the Islamic world, Farabi was the pioneer of this view and left it as a legacy to the thinkers living after him until today. Shaykh Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi is one of the philosophers who gives a specific direction to his philosophical thoughts in search of an ideal state; one that emerges from the heart of his Illuminationist ontology and epistemology. The present paper aims to explore this firm relationship and, given the place of Plato’s ideas in Suhrawardi’s philosophy, highlights the points of agreement and disagreement of these two thinkers in this regard.
Considering the similarities between their views, particularly in cases such as man’s interest in a civil society, the conformity and harmony between their ideal state and the order of being and confining the ruling power to the people possessing the knowledge of the truths of the higher world, one cannot deny the independence of Suhrawardi’s philosophy, especially, with respect to the leadership of an ideal state and its leader’s attributes.

UR  - rimag.ir/en/Article/23431
L1  - rimag.ir/en/Article/Download/23431
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