The Semantic Function of Rational Good and Bad in Purposefulness of the Divine Acts; A Comparison of the Views of the ‘Adliyyah and Shahid Sadr

The purposefulness of the divine acts is depended on an accurate semantic of the rational good and bad (ḥusn wa ḳubḥ-e ‘aḳlī). The ‘Adliyyah theologians consider the acts of God as purposeful which is called “affected by purposes”. Their most important argument to prove this claim is based on the rule of “rational good and bad”. But the impact of the semantic of good and bad on the authenticity of this argument had been ignored. The famous semantic of ‘Adliyyah is “to deserve praise and reproach”. Shahid Sadr contradicted this semantic and considered “moral necessity” as the exact meaning of good and bad. By putting every one of these meanings in the ‘Adliyyah’s argument and comparing their functions, we have shown the significance of semantics of good and bad in this issue and analytically proved that “moral necessity” is a more exact meaning to place in this argument.