influence of mulla sadra’s anthropology on diversity of meaning of life

the paper claims that the meaning of life in the philosophy of mulla sadra is equivocal (moshakik) and diverse not univocal (motawati). this diversity has its root in mulla sadra’s anthropological view, which states that man is not a single univocal species, but is an equivocal one or a genus including disparate species.  the central issue in this paper is to study the influence of gradual and oppositional difference of human being on the diversity of meaning of life in mulla sadra’s philosophy. the results are: supplying three explanations for gradual and oppositional differences of human being in the framework of different nominal manifestation of god and the trilogical immateriality of the human’s soul. the other result is showing that the diversity of meanings of life occurs in the interior of the species of man, and nihilism occurs at the border of it.