The Visionary Approach of Mullā Sadrā to the Intellectual Perception
Subject Areas : Epistemological researches
محمدکاظم رضا زاده جودی
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*استادیار فلسفه دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران مرکزی
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Keywords: Reflection, Observation, self’s degrees, intellectual perception, active intellect,
Abstract :
Intellectual perception, imaginative perception and sensuous perception are three parts of human cognition. Mullā Sadrā believes that these perceptions are obtained by natural transformation of the self and its progression through the higher degrees of existence and its union with the active intellect or Plato’s ideal forms. This would be realized either by observing the forms in the active intellect or through the reflection of forms in the self. Mullā Sadrā agrees with the latter suggestion. This article tries to survey the concept of intellectual perception and its characteristics and nature from the viewpoint of Mullā Sadrā.