Comparative Ontology: Challenges and Defects. A Critic of the Book “HerameHasti (Pyramid of Being): A Critic of the Foundations of Comparative Ontology”

Ahmadizade, Hasan

Comparative Ontology: Challenges and Defects. A Critic of the Book “HerameHasti (Pyramid of Being): A Critic of the Foundations of Comparative Ontology”

Document Type : Research

Author

Hasan Ahmadizade

Assistant Professor, Department of Religion and Philosophy, University of Kashan

Abstract

One of the most important subjects for investigation in the humanities, especially in philosophy and theology, is the comparative investigation. Today in many countries, comparative philosophy is an independent discipline that has different especial methods and investigators. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, after the Islamic Revolution, many thinkers tried to conduct studies on the comparative subjects and published different books and articles about these subjects as well as the comparative philosophy itself. Dr. Mahdi Haeri Yazdi is one the contemporary Islamic thinkers that has investigated comparative philosophy by publishing different books and articles in this area. In this article, we try to re-study one of his books about comparative philosophy drawing on a critical approach. The author in his book, “HerameHasti” (Pyramid of Being)has tried to notice to some philosophical problems, comparing Islamic philosophy and Western philosophy and logic. In this article, we try to show that his book has some internal and methodical pitfalls although it has different merits for comparative investigations in philosophy, theology, and logic.

Keywords

Comparative Philosophy

Ontology

Being

Islamic philosophy

HerameHasti

Subjects

Philosophy

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