in the evolution of muslim’s philosophical thought, it was sadr al-motaallehin who overcame many of complexities in philosophical studies on the soul and presented a new outlook. it is clear that mulla sadra’s philosophical psychology has been depended upon his special principals. the present research, therefore, is to explain the effect of sadra’s theory of substantial movement, as one of his ...

mulla sadra uses his own principles in the debate over unity, multiplicity and graded unity of being to develop a profound interpretation from the noble tradition “there is no compulsion and volition but something in between”. this approach is formed via exposing the meaning of hierarchy in sadra’s theosophy, human deeds are attributed both to the individual himself and the divine will. his bre...

the soul in immaterial for descartes, because it’s inherent attribute; i.e. thought is immaterial. moreover, it is independent from body and matter and has no extend. in his view, the soul from the beginning has been immaterial, while mulla-sadra recognizes it as a corporeal object at the beginning, in generation, and immaterial afterward and survivance. mulla-sadra demonstrates that, soul need...

the present paper discusses the priority of cognitive processes over language production of the speaker, based on mulla sadra’s philosophy of language. in this regard, the conditions of perceiving knowledge as well as the process of language production of the speaker are propounded. mulla sadra believes that knowledge is perceived through a process in which human soul is an active agent rather ...

the kind of attitude to mulla sadra’s works is important in deducing his views accurately. here, there are two types of attitudes. first, the real sadra’s views are what we understand literally from his assertions. the second is that the deduction of his final ideas needs some philosophical independent judgment (ijtihad) in addition to what is understood literally from his assertions and other ...

avicenna, being influenced by farabi’s specific terms about the dual concepts of existence and quiddity, believed in external occurrence of existence upon quiddity in the contingents and the accidental synthesis of things from them. but bahmanyar, the self-proclaimed commentator on avicenna, expressly states in al-tahsil that the existence of a thing is the objectivity of its external quiddity ...