Reconsidering Self and Identity According to Mullah Sadr

Abstract

The current study is based on a hypothesisThe Islamic philosopher Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi (1572-1641 AD), known as Mulla Sadr, reconsidered all previous Islamic philosophical discussion related to the concepts of self and identity. SoThe focus has been placed throughout the paragraphs of this articleA study on presenting Mulla Sadra’s views related to the self and identity, as well as his theory of knowledge and his vision about the formation of human identity through the accumulation of experience and the cognitive unity between the subject and the object, which he presented on the basis of the approach with the philosophical vision of the relationship between matter and image, which is philosophically traditional and known since Aristotle, and which was common and prevalent among people. Muslim philosophers in general. The beginning came in this studyWith fast and intense presentation. The legacy of the School of Transcendent Wisdom includes the most important stages of Mulla Sadra’s spiritual and intellectual development and all the historical, social, and political circumstances that accompanied the emergence of his star as a philosopher, then moving on to present his most important philosophical ideas about the human self, knowledge, and reason, and his own arguments about the immateriality of the soul. This study also addressed his most important ideas about the theory of knowledge and the independence of human cognitive abilities, as well as the influence of experience and its role in forming an identity for the mind, a variable and unstable identity that is formed gradually through accumulation and ultimately contributes to defining a special qualitative identity that emerges clearly through disparate patterns of thinking, which represents... The culmination of Mulla Sadra's reconsideration, which distinguished him from all the Muslim philosophers before him, including Ibn Sina and his theses about the self and self-awareness.