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By proposing the Microcosm and Macrocosm analogy for dialogue between Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology, the authors of this volume are reviving the perennial positioning of the human condition in the play of forces within and without the human being. This theme has run from Plato through the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Modernity, and has been ignored by contemporaries. It now acquires a new pertinence and striking significance due to the scientific discoveries into the "infinitely small" in life, on the one hand, and the prodigious technological discoveries of the "infinitely great" on the other. Both open up undreamt-of prospects for the continuing conquest of cosmic forces. The human person – thrown into turmoil by the new approaches to life and needing to acquire new habits of mind, having lost security of all beliefs – desperately seeks a new clarification of the Human Condition within the unity of everything-there-is, of cosmic forces, and of his destiny. The dialogue between Islamic Philosophy and phenomenology of life can show the way. Papers by: Gholam-Reza A'awani, Mehdi Aminrazavi, Roza Davari Ardakani, Mohammad Azadpur, Gary Backhaus, Marina Banchetti-Robino, William Chittick, Seyed Mostafa Muhaghghegh Damad, Golamhossein Ebrahimi Dinani, Nader El-Bizri, Kathleen Haney, Salahaddin Khalilov, Sayyid Mohammad Khamenei, Mahmoud Khatami, Mieczyslaw Pawel Migon, Nikolay Milkov, Sachiko Murata, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Daniela Verducci.
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ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY AND OCCIDENTAL PHENOMENOLOGY ON THE PERENNIAL ISSUE OF MICROCOSM AND MACROCOSM Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue VOLUME 2 Founder and Editor: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Co-Editor: Gholam Reza A’awani, Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute Editorial Board: Mehdi Aminrazavi, Department of Classics, Philosophy and Religion, Mary Washington College Angela Ales Bello, Rome Patrick Burke, Department of Philosophy, Seattle University William Chittick, Comparative Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook Nader El-Bizri, Dept. of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge Lenn E. Goodman, Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University Hassan Hanafi, Department of Philosophy, College of Arts, Cairo University James G. Hart, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University Walter Lammi, Department of English, The American University in Cairo Robert D. Sweeny, Department of Philosophy, John Carroll University Seyed Mostafa Mohaghghegh Damad Ahmad Abadi, Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute Reza Davari Ardakani, Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute Ibrahim Dinani, Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute Seyyed Mohammed Khamenei, Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13 1-4020-4114-4 (HB) 978-1-4020-4114-3 (HB) 1-4020-4115-2 (e-book) 978-1-4020-4115-0 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2006 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed in the Netherlands. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: Th