Explication of Divine Other-Knowledge through the Analysis of Copulative Existence in Mulla Sadra's Philosophy

The nature of the divine self- and other-knowledge has been a complex controversial issue to philosophers to the extent that some peripatetic philosophers were accused of being unbelievers in the context of the divine knowledge of the variable and temporal particulars. The views of the peripatetic and illumination philosophers on the one hand and the effects of the mystical and Qur’anic verses on the other enriched the issue in the transcendental philosophy. The major question is whether one can present a different interpretation of God’s knowledge using the Copulative Existence Theory in such a way that it could not only solve the problematic aspects of the issue but it would also be devoid of the problems with the former approaches. The present article first presents a number of alternative views and then presents an analysis of Copulative Existence and its impact on clarifying God’s knowledge.