the ideal theory is plato’s most important philosophical view involving his allegory of the cave. he tried much to explain this theory and present arguments in order to prove it. however, his views on the proof arguments and the concrete materials with ideals suffer from shortcomings. the present paper argues that the critiques of aristotle, avicenna, and allamah tabatabaee against this theory ...

one of the most important issues in philosophy of religion is theanthropology, because the human being is both receiver and addresseeof religion. our view to religion can be changed by our view to human.the present article wants to compare the insight of twophilosophers-one of them from the east and the other from the west. mulla-sadra with the presentation of motion in substance in the center ...

This paper sheds light on the views of Mulla Sadra about virtue and action. The main question is how he explains the relationship, if any, between virtue and action. Mulla Sadra defines moral virtue as a settled inner disposition by which one acts morally, without need for any reflection or deliberation. This study seeks to explain how, according to Mulla Sadra, a virtue motivates the agent and...

regarding sadr-ol-mote'allehin philosophical method, various opinions have been proposed from sadra researchers, each of which monitors a part of sadra’s philosophical method or it has paved a way which is different from sadra’s method and transcendent theosophy orators expositions and it is sometimes converse. his four methodological principles, i.e. purposeful combination of three mystic...