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...

 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...

این مقاله با روش توصیفی- تحلیلی و بهره‌‌گیری از مقایسه تطبیق، به تحلیل نقش مؤلفة «توجه» در ادراک حسی منظر ملاصدرا می‌‌پردازد. باب تقریرهای گوناگونی دارد. همة ‌این تقریرها توجه به‌‌عنوان ویژگی اساسی نفس انکارناپذیر است. گویای فعال سایر فرایندهای نفسانی است که بر اساس مبانی خاص دربارة حقیقت ملکوتی آن استوار نظریة را می‌‌توان دو تبیین نمود. الف) تعدد قوای ب) وحدت قوا اعتقاد مراتب نفس. دیدگاه نخست ...

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...

“sources of knowledge” is one of the significant topics in contemporary epistemology. epistemologists accept five sources of knowledge: perception, reason, introspection, testimony, and memory. this paper compares introspection, testimony and memory in mulla sadra and descartes’ philosophical systems. the two philosophers accept introspection, testimony and memory as the sources of knowledge. b...

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 ...