
HoP 188 - Sajjad Rizvi on Mulla Sadra
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Is God's Knowledge Ultimately Through Presence?
God can know everything in its particularity, not through representations, but by the actual particular being present to him. So it's as if God is knowing me as something that's coming towards him all the time. The very fact of the path that that individual may have towards God is also something which is open to God's knowledge. There's always this kind of interesting dialectic between the push and the pull between the act of becoming the act of being prepared to receive more and more.
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