Foundational Obligations of Cultural Reformers Considering Molla-Sadra's Asfar Arbaeh'

The wholistic view of the transcendental wisdom is so comprehensive that it’s philosophical principles is worth being used in interdisciplinary sciences. The investigation of culture should be considered as one of these subjects. Culture is itself an interdisciplinary subject which has a social, religious and political content. Human matters such as values and anti-values are the greatly noticed in this field. The cultures of all societies based on the world-view of its members vary. The central matters noticed in one's world-view are oppression, justice and injustice, human's knowledge or their unawareness of realities and struggling against deviousness. The transcendental wisdom and especially the 'Asfar Arba'eh', with its philosophical and Divine rules, can be effective in this field. I believe there are some principles hidden in 'Asfar Arba'eh' which a reformer of cultural matters should be aware of to achieve success in the society; such that no real success will be achieved, in cultural fields, for the ones who are not aware of these matters. The purpose of this research is to answer this question: which parameters of 'Asfar Arba'eh' should be necessarily known by a social reformer to guide people. One of the results of this research, which has fundamentally dealt with cultural pre-suppositions and has used an analytic-documentary method, is to present a new paradigm to depict the matter of culture processing 'Asfar Arba'eh' of Molla-Sadra.