An Analytical-Critical Approach to Historical Itinerary of Criticism of Skepticism from Ibn Sina to Mulla Sadra

Abstract

Abstrak : Mengamati pemikiran beberapa filsuf Muslim (dari Ibnu Sina hingga Mulla Sadra), artikel ini mencoba menunjukkan peran yang luar biasa dari filsafat Islam dalam konfrontasi intelektual dengan skeptisisme dan menguraikan betapa tradisi ini telah mampu memperkaya dan memperdalam kajian. Makalah ini juga akan menunjukkan pola argumentasi Ibn Sina dalam membuktikan kemungkinan pengetahuan dan menolak skeptisisme. Mulla Sadra yang dianggap dipengaruhi oleh Ibn Sina, al-Razi dan Suhrawardi dalam mengkritik skeptisisme, mengungkapkan argumentasinya dalam karyanya Hashīyāt Elāhiyyāt al-Shifā’ and al-Asfār al-Arbā‘a.Kata kunci : Keraguan, skeptisisme, pengetahuan, kemungkinan pengetahuan, prinsip ketidakmungkinan dari kontradiksi, Filsuf muslim Abstract : Surveying some Muslim philosophers’ thoughts (from Ibn Sina to Mulla Sadra), this article attempts to indicated remarkable role of Islamic philosophy in intellectual confrontation with skepticism and expounds how much this tradition has been capable of enriching and deepening that discussion. h is paper will also shows Ibn Sina’s pattern of proving possibility of knowledge and negating skepticism. Mulla Sadra who considered has been infl uenced by Ibn Sina, al-Razi, and Suhrawardi, in critizising of skepticism, he has dealt with this in his two works of Hashīyāt Elāhiyyāt al-Shifā’ and al-Asfār al-Arbā‘a.Keywords : Doubt, skepticism, knowledge, possibility of knowledge, the principle of impossibility of contradiction, Muslim philosophers.

Keywords

• Doubt
• Skepticism
• Knowledge
• Possibility of knowledge
• The principle of impossibility of contradiction
• Muslim philosophers