Inauguration Ceremony

The Second World Congress on Mulla Sadra and Transcendent Philosophy

Friday, May 21, 2004

 

Time

Program

17:30

 National anthem & program announcement

17:35

 Reciting some verses from the Holy Qur'an

17:45

 Welcome message and report by the president of Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute

18:30

 Delivering the message of the supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran

18:45

 Speech by the honorable president of the Islamic Republic of Iran

19:15

 Announcing the programs of the congress- Break- Reception

   

Saturday Morning

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Center Hall

Interpreter: Yes

Public Session

Subject: 

Chairman: Ayatullah S. Mohammed Khamenei

Board of Directors: Ayatullah S. M. Khamenei, Prof. R. Davari, Dr. Shariatmadari, Dr. D. Follesdal, Dr. D. B. Burrell

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00

Ayatullah Misbah Yazdi

 

9:30

Prof. Reza Davari

 

9:50

Prof. James Morris

Dialogue as Civilisation: Philosophy and Spirituality in Mulla Sadra Today

10:10

Prof. Karim Mojtahedi

Mulla Sadra and Bergson

10:30

Dr. Mohsen Jahangiri

Mulla Sadra and Spinoza on Divine Casuality

11:00

Break

 

 

Saturday Morning

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Hall # 1

Interpreter: Yes

(1) The Transcendent Philosophy and Mulla Sadra's School

 

Chairman: Prof. K. Mojtahedi

Board of Directors: Prof. K. Mojtahedi, Prof. E. Wolf-Gazo

Time

Speaker

Topic

11:30

Dr. Mustafa Muhaqqiq Damad

Natural Environment in the Transcendent Philosophy

12:00

Dr. Mohammad Mesbahi

The Existential Form in Shírazí

12:30

Dr. Hossein Ghaffari

A New Approach to the Doctrine of the Principiality of Existence

13:00

Break

 

 

Saturday Afternoon

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Hall # 1

Interpreter: Yes

 (1) The Transcendent Philosophy and Mulla Sadra's School

 

 Chairman: Dr. M. Dehbashi

 Board of Directors: Dr. M. Dehbashi, Dr. M. Mesbahi

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Prof. Gholam Reza Aawani

Why is Mulla Sadra Called Sadr al-Muta‘allihin

 

15:00

Dr. Ibrahim Kalin

Mulla Sadra and the Classical Kalam: Arguments for the Best of All Possible Worlds

15:30

Dr. S.Mosa Dibaj

Place as Substance: Mulla Sadra's Approath

16:00

Dr. S.Sadruddin

Mulla Sadra and the validity of Knowledge

16:30

Dr. Abbas Jawarishkiyan

Difference or Identity of Gradational Unity and Individual Unity of Being in the Transcendent Philosophy

17:00

Break

 

17:30

Dr. Qasim Kakai

Oneness of Being and Ignorant Sufis in Mulla Sadra

18:00

Dr. Mahmud Erol Kilic

Textualism and Hermeneutics: Mulla Sadra's Commentary on the Symbolism of “A Donkey Which Carries Burdens of Books” (Qur'an; 62:5)

18:30

Dr. Abulfazl Kiya Shemshaki

Sadra's Methodology: Foundationalism or Coherentism?

19:00

Dr. H. Ushshaqi Isfahani

Concomitant of the Prineipiality of Existerce with its Essential Necessity

19:30

Mr. Hojjatullah Rafii Shamsabadi

The Specifications of Transcendent Philosophy

20:00

End

 

  

Saturday Morning

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Hall # 2

Interpreter: Yes

(2) Comparative Studies of Mulla Sadra and other Philosophers

 

Chairman: Prof. M. Khansari

Board of Directors: Prof. M. Khansari

Time

Speaker

Topic

11:30

Dr. Mehdi Dehbashi

A Comparative Study of the Reality of Knowledge in Philosophy of Mulla Sadra and Whitehead

12:00

Dr. Hamidreza Ayatollahy

The Transcendent Philosophy, the Philosophy of the Present and Future

12:30

Dr. Kathleen Haney

Mulla Sadra, Precursor to Edmund Husserl

13:00

Break

 

  

Saturday Afternoon

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Hall # 2

Interpreter: Yes

(2) Comparative Studies of Mulla Sadra and other Philosophers

 

Chairman: Dr. M. Muhaqqiq Damad

Board of Directors:Dr. M. Muhaqqiq Damad, Dr. M. Legenhauzen

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Dr. Ali Allah Bedashti

Theology in Aristotle's Philosophy and Sadra's One

15:00

Dr. S. Hasan Hosseini

The Impact of Ìêsí's Idea on Mulla Sadra with Regard to God's Knowledge and the Principle of al-Waåid

15:30

Prof. Ernest Wolf-Gazo

Sadra and German Idealist Philosophy: On the Problem of Intellectual Intuition

16:00

Dr. Abdurrazzaq Hesamifar

Refutation of Idealism in Islamic Philosophy

16:30

Dr. Ali Karbasizadeh Isfahani

The Best Achievement of Islamic Philosophy and Jurisprudence

17:00

Break

 

17:30

Prof. Hassan Hanafi

Is Mulla Sadra a Phenomenologist? The Relation between Theosophy and Phenomenology

18:00

Dr. Muhammed Kamal

Comparative Analysis of Mulla Sadra's Doctrine of the Primacy of Being with Martin Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology

18:30

Dr. Yusuf Nowzuhur

Epistemological Views of Mulla Sadra and Ibn Sína

19:00

Dr. Hassan Shahpari

Toward Theorizing Sadra's Social Psychology

19:30

Dr. Rasul Nimruzi

A comparative study of Mulla Sadra and Heidegger's ontology

20:00

End

 

  

Saturday Morning

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Hall # 3

Interpreter: Yes

(5) Issues in Contemporary Philosophy, including Phenomenology, Existentialism, Analytic Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Language and Post-Modernism

Chairman: Prof. Z. Movahed

Board of Directors: Prof. Z. Movahed

Time

Speaker

Topic

11:30

Dr. Manoucher Sanei Darrebidi

The Place of Man in Kant's Thought

12:00

Dr. Yuriy M. Pochta

Narrative Methodology of the Islamic Society's Analysis

12:30

Dr. Amer Gheitury

Deconstruction and Presence

13:00

Break

 

  

Saturday Afternoon

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Hall # 3

Interpreter: Yes

(5) Issues in Contemporary Philosophy, including Phenomenology, Existentialism, Analytic Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Language and Post-Modernism

Chairman: Prof. K. Mojtahedi

Board of Directors: Prof. K. Mojtahedi Dr. D. Follesdal

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Dr. Mohammad Jawad Ejei

Knowledge and: Its acquirement in Mulla Sadra and Husserl

15:00

Dr. Hosein Bayat

Logical Syntax of Sentence in Aristotle, Frege, and Mulla Sadra

15:30

Dr. Muhammad Abudula

Ma Ping

The Contributions and Far-reaching Influences of Persian Islamic Culture to the Chinese Islamic Civilization

16:00

Dr. Frances Trix

Linguistic Analysis of the Process of Attunement in Dialogues of Sufí Master and Student

16:30

Dr. Morteza Fathizadeh

The Theories of Justification in Contemporary Epistemology

17:00

Break

 

17:30

Dr. Sadiq Larijani

Phenomenological & Hermeneutical Approach to the Kitab al-masha'ir

18:00

Dr. Leonardo Clerici

Three Modalities of Being and its Semantice in Mulla Sadra's Philosophy

18:30

Dr. Mohammad Saidi Mehr

Modal Concepts and Their Semantics in Mulla Sadra's Philosophy

19:00

Mr. Ali Parimi

The Hermenutics of Religious Texts

19:30