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  1 - The place of corporeality in Mulla Sadra’s epistemology
  Fakhrossadat Alavi Najaf Yazdani
  This research has examined the position of corporeality in Sadra's transcendental epistemological system by a descriptive-analytical method. The necessity of such research is that there are some significant evidences in this system that indicate to the rejection of the More

  This research has examined the position of corporeality in Sadra's transcendental epistemological system by a descriptive-analytical method. The necessity of such research is that there are some significant evidences in this system that indicate to the rejection of the human body and the material world in the process of acquiring knowledge. In fact, contrary to certain epistemologists who consider the physical aspects as one of the main pillars of acquiring knowledge, it seems that Mulla Sadra did not consider the corporeity and its requirements, important in true knowledge and preferred to acquire such knowledge through the immaterial soul and  meta-physical (above tangible) worlds. Analyzing the important components involved in the process of knowledge in Mulla Sadra's expression and despite the existence of seven evidences of rejecting the physicality, in general, it seems that Sadra's epistemology cannot be considered as an anti-physical system, but regarding the various affirmations of physicality in this system- including the causality of the physical objects and the effective intervention of the physical requirements  of perception to attain the first level of knowledge, and the realization of perfection for the human soul by obstructing bodily affairs- this negative evidences should be considered, instead of rejecting the physicality and humiliating of natural sciences, as a sign of the concerns of transcendental philosophy to exalt all human sciences, including the humanities, experimental and technical sciences. Manuscript profile