A critic of Gholamreza Fayazi's criticisms of Mulla Sadra's arguments in the denial of reincarnation

جستارهایی در فلسفه و کلام

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 11 March 2025   

Document Type: Original Article

DOI: 10.22067/epk.2025.91784.1408

Authors

Mahmud saidy^{* 1}; Muhammad musawy²

¹Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Wisdom, Shahid University

²Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Wisdom, Razavi University of Islamic Sciences

Abstract

Reincarnation is one of the most important philosophical issues in the history of human thought, which great philosophers have raised many issues to prove or disprove. Mulla Sadra disproves the theory of reincarnation by using the two proofs of the refusal of the combination of two actual and potential dignity in one object and the necessity of stopping the speaking soul from performing actions when it is cut off from the first body to belong to the second body. The main criticisms raised by Fayazi to these arguments are due to confusion and fallacies in these cases: the concept of power and talent and its relationship with actuality, the union of the speaking soul with the body, and the weak and incompleteness of the body compared to the speaking soul. The intensity of the essential movement and its attribution to the actuality of different levels without losing the former actuality and the contradiction of some problems with each other.

Keywords: Mulla Sadra, reincarnation, power, actuality, Fiyazi, speaking soul, body.

Keywords

Mulla Sadra; reincarnation; power; actuality; Fiyazi; speaking soul

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