avicenna argued that the concept of god's attributes are identical, and mulla sadra stresses on the unity of attributes in concept and difference of them in real and rejected the perspective of the avicenna. this article is trying to begin with the two competing views can be explained by on the base of some of the topics in the semantic and then analyzed its foundation, and results. avicen...

the truth about divine names and the meanings of divine names and attributes have always been regarded as key issues in islamic theology and philosophy, and their surrounding debates have so far triggered controversial and challenging ideas. in this context, the difference of opinions between ibn sina as the head of the peripatetic school and mulla sadra as the founder of transcendental theosop...

the present paper discusses the priority of cognitive processes over language production of the speaker, based on mulla sadra’s philosophy of language. in this regard, the conditions of perceiving knowledge as well as the process of language production of the speaker are propounded. mulla sadra believes that knowledge is perceived through a process in which human soul is an active agent rather ...

the paper claims that the meaning of life in the philosophy of mulla sadra is equivocal (moshakik) and diverse not univocal (motawati). this diversity has its root in mulla sadra’s anthropological view, which states that man is not a single univocal species, but is an equivocal one or a genus including disparate species.  the central issue in this paper is to study the influence of gradual and ...

the present paper, through the linguistic analysis of mulla sadra's philosophical views, has shown that a single linguistic model can be applied to the analysis of all his philosophical views. to this end, based on two linguistic theories regarding the semantic structure of derivation, it is illustrated that mulla sadra’s philosophical views conform to the linguistic model of semantic simp...

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...

because of using principles such as principality, unity, gradation of existence and concomitance between existence and unity, along with an exhaustive understanding of ibn sina's philosophical principle about our knowledge of unity and multiplicity, mulla sadra believed new philosophical-aesthetical principles such as principality, unity and gradation of beauty, though he didn't use t...

abstractreincarnation is one of the widespread issues which are under consideration in various and especially non- abrahamic religions. one disputable matter in islam is metamorphosis. explaining the issue and answering the related questions according to the different intellectual principles, and the correct understanding or the wrong perception of metamorphosis have all caused the emergence of...