Document Type : Research Paper
Author
Assistant Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Wisdom Department, Shahid University
Abstract
Human life, contrary to other beings, has different vertical and horizontal spheres, Islamic philosophers traditionally using different sources such as those adopted from Greek philosophers, their contemplation on the Islamic sources and their own philosophical innovations, Introduced a special viewpoint about the vertical spheres of life and it's relation to the human perfection. Mulla Sadra as one of the most outstanding Islamic philosophers using his own philosophical bases such as primacy and gradation of being and trans-substantial motion represents a profound explication of the vertical spheres of human life and identifies these spheres of life with vertical gradation of the existential perfection. He calls these vertical spheres sensible, imaginal and intelligible world. Although Mulla Sadra has been able to give a philosophical explication of the role of vertical spheres of human life in the pass of human perfection, according to his philosophical bases one cannot make a plausible explication about the role of horizontal spheres of life in the existential perfection of human being.
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