Beyond Dualism: A Study of the Distinction Between the Creator and Created in Ibn Turkah and Giordano Bruno
Subject Areas : Geneology of philosophical schools and Ideas
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Abstract :
One of the important issues that has occupied the minds of philosophers since the beginning of the history of metaphysics is the problem of the relationship between the efficient cause or creator and the effect. Various explanations of this topic have been presented in this regard, among which reference can be made to two innovative viewpoints, one belonging to Giordano Bruno and the other to Ibn Turkah, who have propounded their understanding of this relationship based on their own perception of the theory of the unity of being. Giordano Bruno, in his treatise On Cause, Principle, and One, specifically addresses this issue in the second dialogue and explains the related theory based on his previously presented viewpoints, namely the concept of “vinculum” and tries to outline and describe the goal of Renaissance philosophy, which is the realization of the actual infinite, within a reasonable scope. On the other hand, Ibn Turkah, who was aware of the shortcomings and weaknesses of the approach of the unity of the Necessary Being or Creator and, at the same time, tried to philosophically explain the unity of being and provided an opportunity to assume that the unity of being as the source of division, in addition to clarifying the relationship between the manifestor and the manifested, made it possible to preserve the perpetual expansion of the single being or the collective one. In this paper, the authors initially investigate the viewpoints of Giordano Bruno and Ibn Turkah and then demonstrate that if we re-examine Ibn Turkah's approach in light of Bruno's perspective, we can arrive at the assumption of an infinite universe that is constantly expanding.
