" Truth" in Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra and Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics

The prevailing view among Islamic scholar and western philosophers since Aristotle was that the truth is the correspondence of intelligible form with the external reality. But there have been some other views about “truth” in ancient and contemporary, including; we can refer to the perspectives of the Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra and Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and their criticisms of the current understandings of the truth. Explaining the current idea, the paper describes the version of the transcendent philosophy of “truth” in the form of correspondence of essential known with the accidental known and also the correspondence of the proposition with the thing in itself and his own attitude of the “truth” and the way to achieve it will be expressed and then the exposition of the philosophical hermeneutics of the “truth” and Gadamer’s view about the nature of “truth” and the way to achieve it will be explained. Finally, following sixteen paragraph, the most important positions of the transcendent philosophy of Mulla Sadra and Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics of the “truth”, their comparison and their affinity and strangeness will be determined.