Creativity of Soul and Realization of the Knowledge of the Material World in Sadraian Philosophy

Mulla Sadra devotes considerable attention to the soul as the subject and considers it to be a creative being. As realization of perceptions is one of the fundamental subjects of epistemology, this article claims that reliance on the creativity of soul during the process of perception does not guarantee the eidetic objectivity of perceptions with material beings as a part of perception; however, the forms created by the soul, i.e. subjects known indirectly become objects known by presence thanks to the creativity of soul. Whatever their relation with the subjects known indirectly, they could not b claimed to have eidetic objectivity. Moreover, the unity between soul and active intellect could not prove that the mental forms should necessarily have eidetic objectivity with material beings.