Mulla Sadra and the Issue of Human Authorities in the Arc of Descent

Karimiyan, Ali

doi:10.22059/jop.2025.386968.1006868

Document Type : Scientific-research

Author

ali karimiyan

Associate Professor, Islamic Studies Department, University of Guilan, Guilan, Iran.

10.22059/jop.2025.386968.1006868

Abstract

Although it is difficult to reach the definitive opinion of Mulla Sadra in the field of anthropology, and sometimes one has to reach the "judgments" of his point of view from among theological "similarities", there is no doubt that he has considered "corresponding" authorities for man both in the arc of descent and in the arc of ascent. with the difference that its "arc of descent" has an ontological aspect and its "arc of ascent" has an epistemological aspect. However, the purpose of this article is only to discover his definite point of view regarding "human positions in the arc of descent". Therefore, in the first step, an attempt has been made to explain the difference between "manifestation" and "Incarnation" in addition to a basic discussion, and then to obtain a correct understanding of the degrees of manifestation of Hazrat Haqq from Mulla Sadra's point of view. The findings of this article are proof of the fact that Mulla Sadra, according to principles such as "Pantheism", "simplicity of existence" and "Preception of the unity in multiplicity", has not only assigned four dimensions to Samadi's existence in the arc of descent. Rather, corresponding to that, for the type of human (or great man) as a manifestation of the manifestations of the Prophet Haqq, he has achieved the four statuses of "theological man", "Constraint and The all-mighty man", "regal man" and "property man", and he considered the partial soul of each person and his partial body to be respectively related to the two areas of "regal man" and "property man" of the great man.

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philosophy

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Mulla Sadra and the Issue of Human Authorities in the Arc of Descent

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Volume 22, Issue 2 - Serial Number 43March 2025Pages 191-211

Volume 22, Issue 2 - Serial Number 43
March 2025
Pages 191-211