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Unlike the philosophers before him, Mulla Sadra separated science from categories and placed it under ontology. Mulla Sadra's special definition of science has results, one of which is the theory of ENKESHAF. By accepting science as existence and according to the congruence of existence with all perfections, the concurrence of all beings with perfections (including science) can be produced. Therefore, with the assumption of accepting the theory of ENKESHAF as the main view of Mulla Sadra in understanding, it is possible to extend knowledge and awareness to all beings and for all of them, a level of awareness corresponding to their level of existence can be considered. Also, one of the philosophical challenges in artificial intelligence is the possibility or impossibility of creating an intelligent machine. If we accept the proposed assumption (ENKESHAF theory), we can discuss this philosophical issue from another perspective. That is, the problem will change from creating intelligence to revealing or developing intelligence. According to Mulla Sadra's basis, which originates from his different perception of the problem of science, it can be said that the interpretation of "creating intelligence" is incorrect and can be proposed in a different way, and that is the possibility of revealing intelligence or not in an intelligent machine as an object. In this research, the required information has been collected by the library method and its analysis is based on the discussed problem in artificial intelligence issues

Explaining the relationship between God’s essence and attributes is one of the most fundamental problems in philosophy and kalām. The objectivity of essence and attributes is one of the most important theories that is used to explain their relationship, which is consistent with believing in God’s simplicity as the most crucial or, at least, as one of the most important metaphysical attributes of God. However, accepting the objectivity of God’s essence and attributes or His simplicity depends on the theory that is presented on the ontology of features and attributes. Several theories have been introduced in this regard in Islamic philosophy and contemporary analytic metaphysics. By discussing such theories, the present paper demonstrates the following points: 1) defending the objectivity of God’s essence and attributes is based on a theory on the ontology of attributes; 2) not all theories on ontological attributes are useful for explaining the objectivity of His essence and attributes; 3) the theories of Brian Leftow and Mullā Ṣadrā can be used to defend the objectivity of God’s essence and attributes.

One of the most important challenges before contemporary Man is excessive use of natural resources. Technology is harshly destroying environmental elements, and industry has not only revealed Man’s lack of harmony with nature but also completely altered their metaphysical supremacy and is now threatening their health. The problem of environmental destruction and environmental ethics is a novel product of modern life; however, its principles can be inferred from some of the works of Islamic philosophers, particularly, Mullā Ṣadrā. Five principles in the Transcendent Philosophy could be considered efficient in this regard. According to the principiality of existence, the substance of the human soul and the substance of nature are two modes of the same single truth, and the pain of nature is followed by Man’s suffering. Based on the principle of the awareness and glorification of nature, nature is as respectable as a devout person. Moreover, as the principle of Man’s vicegerency suggests, since God is free from any kind of evil, His vicegerent should also perceive the relationship between nature and its true Owner, function as a good representative of His Beauty and Perfection, and glorify and preserve this manifestation of God to the best of their abilities. According to the principle of continuous creation, nature depends on God at every single moment and is illuminated by His Light, thus it does not deserve to be destroyed and abandoned. Finally, based on the fifth principle, Man acts based on their nature; blessed people lead nature towards heavenly forms, and malicious people lead it towards hellish forms. The first group are concerned about preserving nature, while the second group try to destroy it. In Islamic philosophy and, thus, the views of Islamic philosophers there is a right-duty relationship between Man and nature, according to which Man has the right to use nature conditionally and, at same time, has the duty of protecting and improving it.

In the course of history, art has always functioned as a tool for presenting human questions and a scene for posing philosophical discussions. Therefore, various schools have used art as a means of discovering the secrets of being in order to satiate the thirst of man’s knowledge-seeking intellect for the quality of displaying the manifestation of being. However, the art of today, while displaying visual manifestations, allows imagination flow and visualizes metaphysical and other-worldly concepts. The purpose of the present paper is to examine the ways the seventh art approaches immaterial worlds. To accomplish this task, the authors have tried to explore the world of meaning from the viewpoint of the Transcendent Philosophy in order to portray the mind’s processing of the soul’s imaginations based on Mullā Ṣadrā’s view in spiritualist cinema. The motive for this study was rooted in the necessity of presenting a model that could determine the borderline between right and wrong in the world of meaning and suggest a reliable philosophy on the meaning of the world to the addressees. Thus, the main question of this study is which facilities the world of meaning in Mullā Ṣadrā’s philosophy could offer to spiritualist cinema. Accordingly, the Transcendent Philosophy can represent the world of meaning in the light of viewing the perfect man as the source of truth based on a cognitive approach to soulish perceptions of the worlds of matter, Ideas, and intellect. In this way, it would be possible to provide an original image of the duality of meaning and structure on the silver screen through a profound narration of the appearance of phenomena and a dynamic analysis of inner worlds.

The purpose of this study was to find the relationship between active intellect (demiurgus) and the Prophet's power of perception from the perspective of Farabi and Ibn Sina. Farabi considers the active intellect as the same as the Holy Spirit or Gabriel. According to Ibn Sina, active intellect is manifested as the revelation angel. Unlike Farabi, Ibn Sina expresses the imagination and imaginative powers as two separate powers that present different functions. Ibn Sina defines imagination as a materialist power without any abstraction, while Farabi does not explicitly comment on the abstraction and materialist aspects of imagination. Farabi believes that Prophet can inform the divine issues as he is aware of such issues that have been accepted by his imagination due to his active intellect. In the viewpoint of Ibn Sina, because of the power of the common sense of Prophet towards the most severity and pure passivity, He can receive the details of revelation's concepts without ambiguity and keep them in his treasury of imagination. Like Farabi, Ibn Sina pays attention to imagination power in explaining revelation without having any problem with details. He also considers the impact of the Prophet's ego in the world of creation, inactivity (or passivity), and the nature elements' obedience of Prophet's ego, while such features are not found in Farabi's works. In the viewpoint of Farabi, imagination and imaginative powers are the same cases with two functions, while Ibn Sina sees them as two separate powers that act differently.

The philosophical discussion of human action is one of the most important contemporary philosophical topics. Various issues are raised in this issue. One of the issues that has been neglected in the philosophy of action, despite its importance, is the issue of the relationship between action and the body. This study seeks to philosophically explain the relationship between body and action and how the body influences the formation of action. In Islamic philosophy, the issue of action has been raised sporadically in the form of various topics. In this approach, practical reason is the source of action formation. This intellect is related to the body and has powers in the body, and action is performed through it in the body. The action has two arcs of ascent and descent. The arc of action ascends first to the theoretical intellect through the senses through the intermediate stages. The arc of descent from the unlikely origin to the origin involves the near formation of the action, and finally the action is performed through the active force by moving the bodily organs. The connection point of the action in the ascent and descent stage of the action; Is the body. This is related to the longitudinal levels of action. Action in its transverse course takes on a different interpretation in the light of teachings such as the essential motion of the soul, the union of the soul and the body, and the issue of death in transcendent wisdom. The body is effective in the formation of action in various ways: Some of these are: providing the principles of action, the instrumental role of the body in the realization of action, the queen of action through repetition of bodily actions, the realization of perfection through the body, the body's need for action Specifically, ,

All theorizing about components of happiness requires determination of some criteria for prioritization to resolve practical inconsistencies. This result is affiliated to separation of dependent components (only instrument), independent components (only purpose), and semi-dependent components , providing the possibility to choose the right action like maintenance, reduction, or elimination in inconsistency situations.Using Mullasadra’s transcendent philosophy, solving this problem doesn't seem difficult. Although he considers the theoretical faculty as the main component of happiness and has strong reasons for it, he organized his theory by the ontological concept of perfection (instead of Aristotelian virtue and function concepts) and based its explanation on unity with active intellect (not only connection). By attaching these thoughts to his other basics, especially on the domain of the study of the soul, a new image of happiness components can be formed that, in addition to development of those components, provides a way for recognition of their relation for gaining the mentioned practical result.By conducting an analytical-descriptive examination of theories such as the profound connection between the soul and the body, the unity of the soul and its faculties, and the equivalence of existence with goodness and perfection, a new theory called "comprehensive happiness" can be inferred from Mullasadra's views using inferential-discursive methods. In this theory, all existential perfections (including bodily matters) are considered as ends by essence, constituting independent or semi-independent components of happiness. These components form a longitudinal and latitudinal network in which relationships and precedence among them are determined based on the ontological system of the world. The position of each perfection in this system provides a clear and practical criterion for determining its independence or dependence, enabling prioritization among the components of happiness and resolving potential practical inconsistencies, thus serving as an advantage of this theory over competing views.

Adopting a Sadraean approach, this article studies the Ayatollah Khamenei’s mental framework as manifested in the Statement Second Step of the Revolution and tries to present a systematic understanding of this framework. To this end, firstly the true existential truth of the human being from Sadraean perspective is discussed. Following that, the anthropologic principles of the Statement Second Step of the Revolution and ideas of Ayatollah Khamenei as manifested in the statement are analyzed using descriptive- analytical approach and finally, a content analysis of the anthropological principles of Statement Second Step of the Revolution is presented using a comparative approach. The results show that Sadra, at least theoretically, managed to lay the foundations of an education system based on his analysis of existence and human being. Inspired by his ideas, his following scholars including late Imam Khomeni and Ayatollah Khamenie tried to bring concepts such as Islamic state, Ethical society and Islamic civilization into reality through Islamic Revolution and Statement Second Step of the Revolution and thus pave the way for actualization of Sadra’s idea of Man as Khalifat-Allah as introduced in Quran.

Human beings and their unique characteristics have always attracted the attention of philosophers throughout history and will continue to do so. Islamic philosophers, drawing from divine sources and philosophical principles, are no exception. Two renowned Muslim philosophers, Avicenna, representing the Peripatetic school, and Mulla Sadra, the founder of Transcendent Wisdom, have offered unique perspectives on this subject. In general, in Islamic philosophy, there is no disagreement about the immortality of the soul after the body, due to the clarity of Islamic sources. Most differences of opinion relate to the qualities of the soul during human life. One of the most precise theories about the soul is Mulla Sadra's theory of the corporeality of origination and the spirituality of subsistence, which posits the gradual perfection of the soul. With the advancement of knowledge today, some findings support his view, including the issue of growth until the last moment of life in developmental psychology and Roger Sperry's experiment based on physiological psychology. However, with the specialization of human knowledge, we witness a phenomenon the famous sociologist Emile Durkheim called anomie, meaning the breakdown of the organic relationship between various branches of knowledge, necessitating interdisciplinary research. This situation has led to the assumption that empirical research is different and separate from philosophical methods. The present research, employing an interdisciplinary approach, utilizes philosophical principles and physiological psychology to attempt to prove Mulla Sadra's theory of the corporeality of origination and the spirituality of subsistence through the usual empirical method, which is Roger Sperry's experiment.

The essential (ḏātī) nature of the soul's attachment to the body is one of the innovative and new views expressed by Mullā Ṣadrā. Considering that the views of philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle and Ibn Sīnā are incomplete, he expressed his innovative theory, namely, "the physical nature of the human soul." Among the consequences of this theory is the essential attachment of the soul to the body, emphasized by Mullā Ṣadrā. In fact, based on this point, he tried to consider the famous definition of the soul as its true definition while showing the shortcomings of the peripatetic (Mašāʾī) perspective. Mullā Ṣadrā raised two objections against the Peripatetic philosophers: (1) the incorrectness of combining an abstract being with a material being; and (2) immutability in the nature of the soul. ʿAllāmih Ṭabāṭabāʾī tried to answer the two objections with a critical view. In this article, the author aims to show the shortcomings of ʿAllāmih Ṭabāṭabāʾī's point of view by using the analytical-comparative method, while presenting and explaining in detail the views of Mullā Ṣadrā and the criticisms of ʿAllāmih Ṭabāṭabāʾī.

Affections are considered one of the most significant dimensions of human personality. In this research, we have analytically examined the nature of affections from the perspective of Transcendent Philosophy (Hikmat-e Muta‘aliyah) and concluded that affections, on the one hand, possess a cognitive nature, defined based on pleasure and pain and the cognition of what aligns or conflicts with one’s disposition. On the other hand, they are influenced by the motivating faculties subordinate to the appetitive faculty, namely desire and anger, thus possessing a motivational nature. The integration of the two components of affection—cognitive and motivational—is undertaken by practical reason, which operates through the faculty of estimation (Wahm). According to Mulla Sadra’s interpretation, imagination (Khayal) is an active faculty in generating forms and cognitions and plays a key role in forming, stabilizing, reinforcing, or weakening affections. If we consider imagination as a psychic dimension, then the faculty of estimation is not distinct from the domain of imagination and depends on the level of the human soul. The faculty of estimation manifests at that same level, becoming either an imaginative or rational estimation, and, following its existential rank, it constructs, nurtures, and manages affections. Therefore, cultivating each of these faculties subordinate to practical reason can generate affections corresponding to that state for the individual.

The purpose of this article is to explain the quality of creation and examine the essence of space-time based on Sadra'i philosophy and its comparison with physical propositions. The present descriptive-analytical article explores two issues. One is from an epistemological point of view, and the other is from an ontological point of view. The first looks at the true essence of space-time from Mulla Sadra and Einstein’s point of view in terms of ontology. The second explains their opinions on the essence and objectivity of space-time from an epistemological perspective. Finally, findings showed they believed scientific propositions are not practical and perceptible in terms of epistemology. Indeed, having good mathematical and rational perceptions of space-time is necessary to explain its structure and essence. According to this research, space-time is created from primary matter and is a kind of secondary monster or fundamental particle, and the reason for its expansion rate is its intrinsic movement. So, dark energy is the essence of space and time. Because, in the first place, space-time is imperceptible in nature, and secondly, imagination-driven mathematical perceptions and rational perceptions resulted from cognitive faculty are more accurate than sense perceptions. However, when it comes to ontology, cosmologists have not yet developed any justified priori or posteriori model about the true nature of space-time. Though, according to Mulla Sadra’s bases, space-time is a type of secondary matter completed from the primary matter mode; furthermore, he believed space-time has its origin in the cosmic primary matter.

Ibn Arabi's mystical and philosophical beliefs in knowing God, including the role of self-knowledge, intellect, heart and intuitive knowledge, etc., have influenced the beliefs of other mystics and philosophers, including Mulla Sadra. This research aims to examine the views of these two Islamic sages and philosophers, namely Ibn Arabi and Mullah Sadra, regarding the ways of acquiring the knowledge of God, and to explain the influence of Ibn Arabi's mysticism on Mullah Sadra's view of knowing God. The views of these two sages show that although Mulla Sadra was not an unequivocal follower of Ibn Arabi in many matters, they both believe in the knowledge of the Supreme Being in the three levels of nature, attributes, and actions, and they believe that human intelligence and existential capacities are abilities and capabilities. He does not understand the nature of God. Mulla Sadra, under the influence of Ibn Arabi, considers limits and boundaries for the intellect in knowing the Almighty and His Names and Attributes. Both Ibn Arabi and Mulla Sadra consider self-knowledge to be a very important way to know God, and in this regard, there is no difference between the two sages; Like Mulla Sadra, Ibn Arabi considers knowledge of God to be a matter of doubt, therefore, everyone is capable of knowing God according to his knowledge and cognitive ability.

The identity and character of an individual are formed through a combination of their thoughts, beliefs, traits, and character (khulq). Through self-knowledge and awareness of these existential attributes, one can strive to overcome personal shortcomings and cultivate their strengths. From a social perspective, understanding personality traits—particularly characters—of individuals within a society allows for the anticipation of their behavior in various social contexts, enabling more effective management and interaction within that society. Thus, the study of character has remained a focal point of philosophical inquiry throughout history.
Among ancient Greek philosophers, Socrates and Plato identified character (ethos) with knowledge (Copleston 2001, 1:130, 253). However, Aristotle distinguished moral virtues from knowledge, defining them as character or habits associated with the non-rational part of the soul. He argued that these virtues are not acquired through instruction and education but, like skills, develop through repeated practice (Aristotle 1964, 1:219–242).
Among Muslim philosophers, al-Kindī was the first to reconcile Plato’s theory of faculties and Aristotle’s theory of moderation. He suggested that the soul consists of three faculties—rational (nāṭiqa), irascible (ghaḍabiyya), and appetitive (shahawiyya)—and, contrary to Aristotle, applied the theory of moderation not to actions but to these three faculties (Atrak 2014). Ibn Miskawayh and al-Fārābī emphasized the role of social interaction in shaping moral character, incorporating the social dimension into the essence of character (Fārābī 1996, 83; Ahmadpour 2006, 111–118). Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) highlighted the role of practical reason (al-ʿaql al-ʿamalī) among human faculties, stressing its transcendent or subordinate status in relation to the animalistic faculties in shaping various characters and moral traits (Ibn Sīnā 1996, 65–66). Mullā Ṣadrā, drawing on the fundamental principles of his philosophical system, offered a distinct analysis and interpretation of the nature of character and its role in the emanation of action, setting him apart from his predecessors.
The main question of this article is: From Mullā Ṣadrā’s perspective, what is the ontological status of character in the emanation of human action? In this context, subsidiary issues such as the nature of character, its developmental stages and influencing factors, as well as the criteria for categorizing character, are also examined.

The issue of the role of the prophet's imagination in the quality of communicating revealed truths to people as philosophers (Farabi, Ibn Sina, and Mulla Sadra) viewed and the degree of conformity of their theories with the verses of the Quran have been investigated using a descriptive-analytical method with the help of library documents. The findings of the research show that the imagination (mutakhayyilah) is one of the inner powers of the soul that imagines, gives form and combines rational truths. For this reason, the prophet's imagination reveals simple and tangible truths through counterparts and representations and communicates them in accordance with the perceptual powers of people. Farabi, Ibn Sina, and Mulla Sadra, with a slight difference of opinion, have considered the application of the reasonable to the tangible for the ability to understand the sublime and revealed truths to be the mission of the prophet. Many verses of the Quran speak of the descent and mention of parables to express divine knowledge by God and the Glorious Prophet. Since the representation and descent of intellectual knowledge, which is a form of imitation-making, is the activity of the power of imagination, it can be understood that the divine verses accept the role of this power in descent. Therefore, by presenting the views of philosophers to the verses of the Quran, it is possible to conclude that the verses confirm the views of philosophers.

The present study aimed to thoroughly investigates Mullā Ṣadrā’s ontological approach to the classification of virtues and vices. To this end, the historical origins and development of these classifications were examined to detect the historical significance and contributions  of Mullā Ṣadrā’s perspectives. Following the Platonic-Aristotelian paradigm, Islamic philosophers have frequently analyzed virtues and vices analogous to the faculties of the soul. Accordingly, Mullā Ṣadrā’s  classification of virtues was analyzed in correspondence with an ontological approach to analyzing the faculties of the soul. In his work, Mullā Ṣadrā’ adopted three distinct approaches to the classification of virtues and vices: (1) Binary Model, with a focus on the virtues of ḥikmah (intellectual virtue) and ḥurriyyah (practical virtue); (2) Fourfold Model adressing the four human faculties—bestial, predatory, satanic, and angelic; and (3) Platonic-Aristotelian Model, with virtues and vices being classified as intellectual, appetitive, and irascible faculties of the soul, allowing for a systematic tabulation of virtues and vices. Mullā Ṣadrā’s analysis of the faculties of the soul draws on Avicenna’s Al-Shifāʾ and Al-Ishārāt as well as Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Al-Mabāḥith al-Mashriqiyyah; however, his approach to this classification bears a stronger resemblance to the ethical framework of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. In this regard, as inferre by mystics and spiritual elites, Ṣadrā’s analysis of the faculties of the soul does not functionally align with the tabulated classification of virtues and vices. His classification, to a broader extent, corresponds to the approach of Muslim thinkers such as Ṭūsī; however, it is distinct—despite certain connections—from Aristotle’s classification of virtues.

The article contends that personal identity and numerical unity throughout one's life are certain and directly observable. In the philosophy of Transcendent Wisdom, the human soul is the criterion for this identity. Due to the body's constant changes and metabolic processes, it is deemed ineffective in explaining personal stability. Despite this, Transcendent Wisdom acknowledges the essential motion of the soul and its invisibility, which can challenge the concept of personal stability both ontologically and epistemologically. The article's analysis suggests that motion only disrupts personal stability if it entails annihilation and recreation. However, in Transcendent Wisdom, the soul's motion is depicted as non-spatial, ensuring the previous self persists in subsequent moments, with only its boundaries changing. Additionally, considering the body as a lower level of the soul and the impossibility of material reincarnation, the body, due to its connection with the soul, can serve as an indicator of the identity of other individuals. Therefore, the stability of personal identity in Transcendent Wisdom is a credible and defensible theory.

This article uses a descriptive-analytical method to explain the nature of ignorance and its types in Mulla Sadra's works. Sometimes, ignorance is referred to as (1) lack of knowledge, sometimes (2) lack of true belief, and sometimes (3) lack of knowledge or true belief. Mulla Sadra's view on the relationship between knowledge, imagination, and affirmation shows that, from his perspective, ignorance cannot be limited to a lack of knowledge (imagination) or a lack of belief (affirmation). Mulla Sadra classifies ignorance into three categories: (1) simple ignorance, (2) compound ignorance, and (3) ignorance opposed to reason. In Mulla Sadra's intellectual system, different types of ignorance exist in contrast to justified true belief: (a) false belief, or belief in things that are contrary to reality; (b) unjustified true belief, such as imitative true beliefs without justified reason; (c) disbelief—the failure to acknowledge and denial of justified true belief due to prejudice, stubbornness, or concealment of the truth; (d) suspension of judgment regarding a true belief in a state of doubt and uncertainty; (e) light inattention (negligence) toward a true belief that can be resolved with attention; (f) heavy inattention (negligence) toward a true belief that cannot be resolved with attention (deep ignorance); (g) lack of talent or ability to pay attention, understand, and acknowledge a true belief (complete ignorance). Based on the doctrine of transcendental wisdom regarding doubt, the types of ignorance can be considered as different levels and degrees of severe and weak ignorance.

The purpose of this article is to examine two seemingly contradictory views on the home of partial souls from Mulla Sadra’s perspective. In the series of discussions on philosophical psychology proposed by Mulla Sadra, the issue of the home of partial souls in the arc of descent does not appear to have a single foundation, and two different views can be identified in his works. According to the first approach, which is based on substantial movement, partial souls originate from partial bodies, and therefore, the material world is the first home of both in the arc of descent. Partial souls have no prior realization before the material world except as a general soul in fixed objects. However, according to the second view, which is based on a specific, skeptical unity, Mulla Sadra holds that man is a single reality with four levels: divine man, spiritual man, heavenly man, and earthly man. In this view, apart from being realized as a general soul in the world of reason (ʿaql or power), man also exists as partial souls in numerical plurality in the world of example (ʿalam al-mithal), and partial souls never descend into the world of matter.

Today, methodology has been given attention in various sciences in such a way that it has become a serious and separate research field. What method each thinker adopts to express his desired science, helps man in obtaining the system that governs his achievements. One of the great thinkers and philosophers and the founder of the transcendental school of wisdom is Mulla Sadra, whose method governing his philosophy has become a battle of opinions. On the other hand, Allameh Tabataba'i, who is famous as a neo-Sadra philosopher, and paying attention to his methodology is also important; Therefore, the present article examines the methodology of the philosophy of Mulla Sadra and Allameh Tabataba'i with a descriptive-analytical method and it is clear that the philosophy of Mulla Sadra is an independent school and the method that governs his philosophy is the rational and evidential method, and he uses the evidential method or traditions as a judge. is a search; Also, Allameh Tabatabai (RA) used a purely rational method to express philosophy and used narration, revelation and intuition in philosophy as a compilation.