Gender and Soul in Principles of Transcendental Philosophy with an Emphasis on Ayatollah Javadi Amoli's View

The paper deals with evaluation of masculinity or femininity of human soul from the perspective of transcendental philosophy with an emphasis on Ayatollah Javadi Amoli’s viewpoint. He believes that before entering to this world, soul is void of masculinity and femininity and while he accepts the existence of abstract soul in a world before this world, he sees no contradiction between this perspective and foundation of corporality origination of soul. By comparing and corresponding his viewpoint with Mulla Sadra’s and other Sadrian philosophers’, despite of apparent differences, agreement and lack of conflicts could be observed between them. However, his viewpoint is addressed by some criticisms; such as the one that the effect of physiologic differences on spirits and reason has been ignored. Finally, soul has no gender and gender is formed after formation of embryo in the ecstatic world.