The Effect of Mulla Sadra's Ontological Foundations on his Analysis and Understanding of the Relationship between Action, Property and Knowledge

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1 PhD student, Department of Education, Theoretical Foundations of Islam, Faculty of Theology and Religions, Shahid Beheshti University

2 Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Theology and Religions, Shahid Beheshti University

10.22061/orj.2025.2274

Abstract

Sublime wisdom has certain ontological foundations that flow as a foundation stone in all matters of subliminal wisdom. Among these issues is the relationship between action, possessions and knowledge, which according to Mulla Sadra's point of view have a three-way relationship. Actions and properties in the ascending arc have preparatory and preliminary status, and in the descending arc, they have an existential status and fruition and emergence for knowledge. The current research is trying to answer this question, what effect does the ontological foundations of Sadr al-Mutalahin have on his analysis and understanding of the relationship between action, property and knowledge? The purpose of this research is to discover the influence of the principles of Sadra in the process of forming the relationship between action, property and knowledge, which is followed by descriptive-analytical method. Sadra's view of this relationship is not separate from his ontological foundations. According to the theory of originality of existence, the scientific evolution of a person is done by repeating actions and permeation of properties, and the existence of the world undergoes transformation and transformation and attains existential perfection. By accepting the principle of skepticism in existence, different degrees for science, which is an existential matter, are proved, and every human being has different benefits from science and knowledge according to the extent of repeating his actions and acquiring different properties. Therefore, the greater the capacity of existence, the greater the productivity of science. According to the personal unity of existence, man realizes that he and all possibilities do not have any kind of existence and only by virtue of the connection with the Lord and the connection to the active intellect, he will have a relational existence. With the essential movement, the essence of the soul, by means of science and action, goes through the incomplete levels of existence with the existence and reaches the more complete levels. That is, the soul, by means of its essential movement of striving and perfection, is aligned with intellectual and royal truths. Based on the basis of the possibility of poverty, by performing actions, man acknowledges the reality of his poverty, incapacity, and possible weakness in front of the absolute wealth of God.

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