The Corporeal Being, its Knowledge and its Capasity to be Known from Mulla Sadra's Viewpoint

In this paper, two apparently different views of Mulla Sadra concerning the knowledge of corporeal beings will be discussed. Sometimes he states that material beings are a kind of darkness which is neither the subject and nor the object of knowledge. But in other cases he states that "being" and "knowledge" are simultaneous, so corporeal beings possess a degree of knowledge because they possess a degree of being. But considering the principles of his philosophy, we can discuss that these two views do not contradict each other.