Scientific Journal
Abstract
The supra-intellectual immateriality of the soul is a significant yet insufficiently explored issue in Mullā Ṣadrā’s Transcendent Philosophy. This study investigates the possibility of its realization in light of the ontological and epistemological foundations of Sadrian philosophy. Employing an analytical-descriptive method, it examines Mullā Ṣadrā’s principal works together with selected commentaries on Transcendent Philosophy. The findings indicate that, within the Sadrian framework, the human soul is a graded reality characterized by continuous existential intensification. Through substantial motion, it progresses from corporeal origination toward ever higher degrees of immateriality. Consequently, restricting the soul’s perfection to the intellectual level is incompatible with the doctrines of the gradation of being and the teleological orientation of substantial motion, thereby justifying the possibility of a stage beyond intellectual immateriality. At this level, cognition surpasses acquired knowledge and advances to presential knowledge, direct spiritual intuition, and the unity of the intellect and the intelligible. The study concludes that supra-intellectual immateriality is not merely a theoretical assumption but a necessary implication of Mullā Ṣadrā’s account of the soul’s perfection and humanity’s ultimate proximity to God.
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