Philosophical Futurism: An Inquiry into the Perspectives of Sadr ol-Motallehin Shirazi

Philosophy is a science that lays the theoretical foundations and affirmative foundations of other sciences, and the sciences formulate and establish their foundations based on philosophy. Futurism, as a new science, needs philosophical epistemological studies. The main question of the present study is that according to Mulla Sadra's philosophical ideas, the future will be based on which principles and what future and how the future will be determined? The purpose of this study is to know the future from Sadra's point of view on the future issue in order to take a step in producing indigenous futures studies knowledge. The research method in this research is a library that collects information by referring to first-hand and authentic works. The method of document analysis is done by the method of logical deductive reasoning by stating the premise, and studying the result from the said premise. This method is called the reasoning and rational method, which is useful for certainty and brings the researcher inner confidence. According to Sadra, the future - not its temporal meaning but its phenomenological examples - has a physical existence and will eventually be and will remain spiritual. On the other hand, as a philosopher, by accepting the principle of causality; Believes that there must be a connection between cause and effect; And the time of the material essence is the change of essence and modernity of identity or the amount of its modernity and restlessness and the fourth dimension of matter. Therefore, the disabled future is the causes that knowing the future requires understanding the complete cause of any phenomenon