PARADOXALITY AS A METHOD OF UNDERSTANDING THE DIVINE MEANINGS (based on the text of an-Niffary “Kitab al-Mawaqif”) (80,00 руб.)

PARADOXALITY AS A METHOD OF UNDERSTANDING THE DIVINE MEANINGS (based on the text of anNiffary “Kitab alMawaqif”) R.V. Pskhu Department of History of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia Miklukho-Maklaya str., 10/2, Moscow, Russia, 117198 The paper deals with the paradoxes in the texts of the medieval Sufi Muhammad ‘Abd al-Jabbar an-Niffary (X). <...> Key words: Niffary, Sufism, translation, paradox. “And I wish you wouldn't keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy”. “All right,” said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. “Well! <...> It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!” Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll As we know the word ‘paradox’ has various meanings. <...> The popular one is a meaning of logical contradiction, in other words an assertion, the first part of which refutes or denies the other. <...> Etymologically the word ‘paradox’ goes back to the Ancient Greek word παράδοξοζ, which consists of two parts: παρά — ‘in spite of’, ‘against’, and δόξα — ‘opinion’, ‘generally accepted statement’. <...> In this case the word ‘paradox’ can be interpreted as ‘something that is contradictory to the common opinion, to a generally accepted statement, or ‘opinion contradictory to the common sense’. <...> There are two main types of paradoxes in philosophy: logical paradoxes and semantic paradoxes. <...> The brief investigation of different philosophical encyclopedias and dictionaries has shown quite expectable results, though this notion is not popular among philosophers: some philosophical dictionaries just ignore it, others can make references to other dictionary articles. <...> As we see it, for example, in the American philosophical encyclopedias, where the notion ‘paradox’ is explained in two articles ‘Logical paradoxes’ and ‘Paradoxes of Zeno”. <...> In the first article the author (Vann McGee) defines a paradox as a demonstration which results in absurdity, and which is made through the strike deductive method based on the true premises. <...> Practically all philosophical definitions (which just repeat each other) draw attention to the connection between ‘paradox’ and ‘contradiction’, “which occurs in a theory, when one keeps to logical correctness <...>