Explaining the Ontological Differences between Islamic Transcendent Philosophy and Emergentism on the Soul-Body Problem

Toossi Saeidi, M.; Hosseini, S.H.

doi:10.58209/jpt.1.4.265

Explaining the Ontological Differences between Islamic Transcendent Philosophy and Emergentism on the Soul-Body Problem

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

M. Toossi Saeidi

S.H. Hosseini

Philosophy of Science Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.58209/jpt.1.4.265

Abstract

Emergentism bears similarities to the Islamic Transcendent Philosophy about the relationship between the soul and the body. At the same time, despite these similarities, there seem to be fundamental differences in the ontological picture of these two. The main issue of this paper is to identify these differences. The result of this effort can be summarized as saying that the ontological foundations of Emergentism are consistent with scientific findings, while this is not the case with Transcendent Philosophy, and that there are fundamental differences between the ontological picture of Transcendent Philosophy and Emergentism in relation to the soul and the body relation; Differences rooted in the contradiction between the classical or Aristotelian image of the world and the new scientific image of the that.

Keywords

Emergentism

Islamic Transcendent Philosophy

Soul-Body Problem

Matter-Form Dualism

Causation

Subjects

Philosophy of Religion (Analytical)

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