this essay is about mulla sadra and allameh tabatabaei’s views on the concept and extension of the “world of zar (pre-existence)” (the pervading meaning of verse 172, al-araf, holly quran). in this research, based on sadra and tabatabaei’s basic thoughts and by using the descriptive and analytic method the following results have been achieved: 1. the existence of the world of zar is proved by s...

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...

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...

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...

in the exposition of man's reality and the interpretation of mutual relation of soul and body, today's human beings are no less astonishment than those in the age of plato. in the present age, although there has been provided the background of scientific research, the materialistic tendencies are found more than before. the main reasons of such a thing are the inadequacy of philosophi...

in this research, the methodology of which is descriptive-inferential, our problem is the role of the unity of divine acts in mulla sadra’s transcendent philosophy and the evaluation of his arguments on it. in this regard, after explaining the concept of “unity of divine acts”, we show that since the boundaries of sadra’s philosophical system approaches speculative mysticism, sadra’s system in ...