one of the prominent figures in epistemology from a moral-educative perspective is mulla sadra. this essay tries to analyze his ideas in a library-based method in order to find his educative methods. the key question is what educative methods are explicitly or implicitly mentioned in his epistemological ideas. he based his educative ideas upon his philosophical foundations specially the substan...

ibn sina considers the first being in the world to be the first intellect, which issues from the necessary being on the basis of the principle, ‘only one issues from that which is one in all respects’, and through the different aspects of which all other beings come into existence. ibn arabi rejects the basis of ibn sina’s theory of the first emanation, which is the above mentioned principle, a...

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 ...

ibn sina characterizes sidiqin argument as an argument by means of which the existence of necessary being is proved just on the basis of reflecting on the nature of being. he claims that his versions of the argument satisfy the criterion, really. mulla sadra, however, argues first that ibn sina’s arguments are not, properly speaking, based on reflecting on the nature of being, and second that t...

one of the issues raised in the discussion knowledge of god, is the existence of different stage in this regard. despite the unity and simplicity of god and apparent similarity of knowers in existence, however, it is a question that why this plurality exist? mulla sadra, according to his philosophical principles like copulative existing of caused to cause, ontological approach to knowledge and ...

the problem of the knowledge of human soul and its correlation to god's knowledge have been introduced between muslims of the beginning of islamic age and thought, using at correct traditions for ahl ul-bayt. muslim philosophers' affected by islamic teachings have studied in this respect and raised its problem as an islamic philosophical problem. they discussed this problem from two a...