introspection, testimony and memory in mulla sadra and descartes’ philosophical systems

Philosophical justification of revelation in the view of Mulla Sadra

  Molla Sadra has viewed revelation, vahy, to be the connection and unity of the Prophet’s spirit with intellectual and fantastic world. To establish such a state, one should cut off any attention from low desires and let wisdom govern over his worldly tendencies. In such a state intellectual and fantastic faculties find appropriate opportunity to attain their own perfections, namely to observ...

incorporeity of soul from descartes and mulla-sadra viewpoint

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...

Mulla Sadra on Virtue and Action

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...

awareness in Avicenna , Suhrawardi and Mulla sadra A synoptic account

explaining mulla sadra philosophical thought method principles

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...

Mulla Sadra and God's Detailed Knowledge of Things