A Feasibility Study of Human Soul’s Purgatorial Evolution in the View of Mulla Sadra

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 PhD Candidate of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Tehran University, Farabi Campus

2 Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Tehran University, Farabi Campus

3 Associate Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Tehran University, Farabi Campus

10.22034/ra.2020.100653.2288

Abstract

Adopting new foundations in transcendental wisdom, Mulla Sadra has developed renewed viewpoints toward study of the soul. He has offered new explanations for souls’ life and quality of its creation and laid a proper groundwork for portraying the evolution of soul between death and resurrection by picturing the souls’ life through examples and generalizing the substantial motion to substantiality of the soul. Authors are to answer whether any analysis of evolution and nature of the soul can offer a philosophical explanation for the purgatorial evolution of the soul. It is concluded that although Mulla Sadra has adopted inconsistent positions toward the evolution of soul and refrains from definitive agreement with the obstacles toward any explanation for evolution of soul between death and resurrection, philosophical foundations of his transcendental wisdom enjoy potential capabilities for logical explanation in this regard. In addition, he has implicitly confirmed the purgatorial evolution of soul in his commentaries and his theological and philosophical views.

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Religious Anthroplogy
Volume 17, Issue 43
September 2020
Pages 49-68

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