modern scientific cosmology, having grounded itself in materialism, rebuts any theocentric explanation of the world as unnecessary and irrational. stephan hawking, being a prominent figure in this field, seeks to demonstrate that the world has come to existence by chance or necessity through an antitheistic argument based on big bang theory. regarding the metaphysical dimensions of the discours...

this article considers all the mulla sadra’s proofs of primacy of existence (asalat al-wujud) found in all his works‚ and concludes that sadra has two approaches in his arguments: (1) to prove the primacy of existence through negation of original attributes from quiddity (mahiyyah), (2) to refute the primacy of quiddity through indirect proof. at the end‚ we conclude that the first approach and...

mulla sadra treated logos (kalam) as something that expresses the inside of the speaker, and explained that divine logos includes god’s creatures and god's action, therefore applying the word and logos to the universe is true, and according to the definition, god is speaker. mulla sadra explains the divine logos and command in three steps: superior logos i.e. the world of amr, middle logos...

 In what follows, the author has dealt with the relation between the necessary being as an unchangeable Essence and His changeable and unchangeable attributes. Neither is the ascription of any changeable attribute impossible for God nor is the ascription of any kind of unchangeable attribute possible. As the change of genitive attributes does not demand the change in the Essence, it is possible...

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 intends to find an answer to the problematic description of the difference between mulla sadra and allameh tabatabaei’s views on the ontological explanation of “predication” and also, tries to find the origin of this difference. since subject and predicate are different degrees of one existence in mulla sadra’s philosophical structure, the reality of predication is the :union: of two...

although aristotle has considered the “universal substance” as a substance, he introduced knowledge as an accident. the question then arises as to whether a “universal substance”, whereas it is a substance, can be an accident. answering the question, ibn sina has changed the subject of the dispute from “mental substance” to “quiddity of substance”, so that he could guarantee its truth in the fo...

the expression “corporeality of soul” in sadra’s works can be interpreted on the basis of two different views: that of corporeality origination of soul according to which the soul in its initial stages of existence is “imprinted’’ and immanent in matter. in the second view, however, the soul is of “essential relatedness” in virtue of which it has a relative being and thus is existentially relat...