The Evaluation and Analysis of the Mediating and Traversing Movement

Abstract

In the view of Avicenna, mediating movement is the being of moved between origin and end of the movement, and traversing movement is the abstraction of imaginary forms from the terms of movement and picturing them collectively. Due to raising some objections to the existence of movement, Bahmanyar denied the objective existence of the mediating movement; on the contrary Mirdamad accepted the objective existence of both of them. Mullah Sadra in some cases is inclined to accept the objective existence of the mediating movement and in other cases accepted the objective existence of the traversing movement. Tabatabaei believes in the objective existence of both of them. In this paper the authors have proven that only Sabzevari has grasped the view of Avicenna about these two movements- which is the objective existence of the mediating movement and the subjective existence of traversing movement- very well.