The relationship between ethics and politics according transcendent philosophy

In the contemporary thinking, when speaking of the relationship between ethics and politics, various questions may arise: Is there a objectivity-interaction relationship between ethics and politics? Will ethics be a subordinate to and an instrument for politics? Are ethics and politics contradictory, or two separate domains? Contemplating over Mulla Sadra’s thoughts and the theoretical foundations of ethics and politics in transcendent philosophy, one can give a positive answer to the questions of whether ethics will be subordinate to politics, or there will be a unity-interaction relationship between ethics and politics. Thus, the paper concentrates on these two questions. It seems that, concerning the relationship between ethics and politics, Mulla Sadra has chosen two hypotheses of “final-instrumental” and “unity-interaction” among the various common hypotheses. He has also created an inseparable relationship between ethics and the common and transcendent politics through proposing Asfar Arba-e [the four journeys] on the basis of Tawhid [oneness of god].