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Mulla Sadra
Mulla Sadra espouses a doctrine which not only prioritizes existence over essence, but also establishes existence to be reality as such. The world and all its contingents are in fact one singular existence, and essence is a mere illusory mental construct. This has multiple implications, one of which being that no existent thing remains the…
Tabataba’i
Many thinkers believe that essence is fundamental, while existence is secondary, using both arguments and common-sense intuition to support their theory. They then use the cosmological argument to provide a proof of God on the basis of His essence. Since existence is secondary, the result is often a rigid ontology where essences do not change,…
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