One of the most important issues for Muslim philosophers is the continuous imaginal world and its relationship with the discontinuous imaginative faculty. The continuous imaginal world is a perceptive faculty of the soul known as the faculty of imagination. The discontinuous imaginative faculty is the order of the universe called the imaginal world, which Muslim philosophers have portrayed in a...

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 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 has presented four theories on existential propositions which at first glance seem to be completely different from each other. the present article claims that, if we consider these four views from the perspective of the principality of existence and from the perspective of the principality of quiddity we will find that: firstly, these four views are reducible to two, and secondly, t...

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...

mulla-sadra in his different philosophical and theological works has discussed the issue of resurrection (ma-add), both in spiritual and bodily way. in this works he attempted to demonstrate the issue of bodily resurrection according to the principles that formerly have been proved in his philosophical system. the subject is that, the quantity of these principles differs from one work to anothe...

two meanings regarding the principality of existence (isālat al-wujūd) can be inferred from the works and words of mulla sadra. one meaning is the objectivity of existence and essence on which many issues of transcendental philosophy are based. this meaning has deep philosophical consequences and implications. it seems that this meaning causes certain problems which make its acceptance tricky. ...

human emotions are in connection with his deeds on the one hand and his perceptions on the other, and this complicates the analysis of emotion. furthermore, any school of thought in search of presenting a comprehensive perspective on the human should clarify its stance with regard to emotion and the position it has in the structure of human cognition and deeds. this fact places the answer to th...

in this article the impact of mulla sadra’s philosophical opinions concerning necessary being on his understanding of the qur’anic verses is critically reviewed. to this end, all exegetical and philosophical books of mulla sadra have been studied and the instances in which he has–under the influence of the above opinions– inferred meanings other that the apparent meanings from the qur’anic vers...