Regarding the essence of space, there are only a handful doctrines from philosophers, and two of them are the most accepted ones among Muslim philosophers: one is from Plato originally, which held by a few Muslim philosophers, including Mulla Sadra; the other, which is referred to Aristotle that peripatetic school mostly believed in. based on Plato’s theory, at its face value meaning, seems to hold space to be incorporeal, abstract, while Aristotle think of it as an accident. In this paper, since space in the realm of existence and consciousness in the realm of essence, originality of existence has been discussed first. The essence of space in history of Islamic philosophy is explained in the following part. Four meaning of consciousness, i.e., phenomenological consciousness, is analyzed in the third part. Afterwards, the statement “consciousness is the essence of space” is illustrated, in a way one could say the concept of consciousness is derived from the concept of space. Consciousness is a philosophical second-order concept (space is philosophical first-order concept). However, affirming this statement is through knowledge by presence, not knowledge by acquisition.
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