The Noology of Mir Findiriski in the treatise «On Craft»

The subject of the research is the study of Mir Findiriski treatise «On Craft» (Risa'la-yi s'ina'iyya). The object of the research is the philosophical visions of Mir Findiriski. According to him the intelligence is the highest mental function of human, whereby human differs from other manifestations of the life on the earth. At different periods in the history of philosophy, thinkers described the intelligence, which formed the section of noology, that is a philosophical legacy of arab-muslim philosophers (al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, etc.). The author examines in detail such aspects of the topic as the Necessity being and intelligence in the structure of being degree of Mir Findiriski, the paradigm of the “subject of the acting or action” of the philosopher’s noological system, three levels of the intelligence, the formation of the general order through three levels of the intelligence, at the top of which is personality with the intelligence of human. In conducting the study, the philological-translation and logical-semantic approaches to the analysis of the text were used, on the basis of which Risala-yi sinaʻiyya in Russian acquired a philosophical interpretation and the paradigm of noology and the system of philosophical visions of Mir Findiriski were synthesized in the treatise “On Craft”. In addition, the method of comparative analysis is used to determine the place of continuity of the intellectual legacy of al Farabi and Ibn Sina and originality in the noology of Mir Findiriski. The main conclusions of the conducted research are: definitions of the being degrees of Mir Findiriski, three levels of intelligence, the formation of general order through three levels of intelligence, at the top of which is personality with the intelligence of human in the noology of the of Mir Findiriski. Mir Findiriski classifies the following being degrees: Necessary being, intelligence, soul and nature. Intelligence as the second being degree has three levels: the intelligence of minerals, plants and animals, the intelligence of the human species and the intelligence of the human personality. Furthermore, the continuity of the intellectual legacy of al-Farabi and Ibn Sina and the originality in the noology of the Safavid philosopher are determined. The continuity lies in the fact that the Almighty God occupies a central place in the noological system of Mir Findiriski. The originality is presented in the following: the intelligence of minerals, plants and animals, the intelligence of the human species and the intelligence of the human personality, which is a distinctive categorical apparatus of intelligence levels from the noology of al-Farabi and Ibn Sina.

Mir Findiriski, treatise on craft, noology, intelligence, being degrees, the second degree of being, the mind of all created beings, intelligence of people, intelligence of the human personality, arab-muslim philosophy