Wahdat Al-Wujud and Logos of Life: The Philosophical Comparison

Bunyadzade, Konul

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Konul Bunyadzade³

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The article is dedicated to the philosophical comparison between the two important directions of idea which belong to the East and West: between ‘unity of being’ (wahdat al-wujud) and logos of life. Firstly, we have briefly analyzed these philosophical concepts. Then we have presented wahdat al-wujud as an idea which stands at the beginning and the end of the creation process directed from One to plurality, and the logos of life as the creation energy of the cognition-creation process directed from subject to object: from the human being to Creator or to a creation. And has become clear that the logos of life is the life energy within the unity of being. On the basis of these considerations, we have also investigated the idea, which claims that the human being is matrix, from two aspects. On the one hand, the human being is viewed as a microcosm which stands at the opposite pole from the Creator, and on the other hand as a return of the creation process to the process of cognition and as a changing point.

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1.
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3.
Ibn Arabi, Fusus al-Hikam, ed. Afifi, Beirut, 1946, p. 90.
4.
Ibid, p. 65.
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6.
Ibid, p. XXXVI.
7.
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9.
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10.
A-T. Tymieniecka, “The Unveiling and the Unveiled”, p. XXXVI.
11.
Ibid, p. XXXVII.
12.
Ibid, p. XXXII.
13.
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15.
The eternal essences of things which together form the world of Ideas or the spiritual world which is intermediary between God and the material world of sensible phenomena.
16.
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20.
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21.
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22.
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23.
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24.
al-Hamadani, Zubdat al-haqa’iq, p. 67.
25.
Ibid, p. 92.
26.
Tymieniecka, “Before Entering into the Heart of the Matter”, p. xxxiii.
27.
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28.
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29.
Tymieniecka, “The Unveiling and the Unveiled”, p. XXI.
30.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Logos and Life: The Three Movements of the Soul, Book 2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988, p. 53.
31.
Ibid, pp. 71–72.
32.
Ibid, p. 87.
33.
Ibid, p. XXXVIII.
34.
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35.
A-T. Tymieniecka, “The Unveiling and the Unveiled”, p. XXXII.
36.
S. Khalilov, Elm haqqında elm, Bakı, “Azərbaycan Universiteti” nəşriyyatı, 2011, p. 308.
37.
Anna-Teresa Tymyiniecka, The Fullness of the Logos in the Key of Life, p. 33.
38.
A-T. Tymieniecka, “The Unveiling and the Unveiled”, p. XXXIX.
39.
Ibid, p. XXI.

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Bunyadzade, K. (2014). Wahdat Al-Wujud and Logos of Life: The Philosophical Comparison. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Phenomenology of Space and Time. Analecta Husserliana, vol 117. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02039-6_11

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