Mullā Ṣadrā's Transcendent Political Philosophy on the Basis of the Theory of Trans-substantial Motion

Making changes in the world is one of the chief desires of the modern man. This cannot be achieved unless one has an interpretation of the world, the man who lives in it, and the relevant facts. Even the organization of human life cannot be made possible without that interpretation. It means that every substantial change based on practical philosophy in such realms as morality, domestic economy (household management), and politics is linked to the theoretical conceptions in relation to theoretical philosophy. MullÁ ÑadrÁ’s theory of the trans-substantial motion in the Transcendent Philosophy is concerned with a particular conception or interpretation of change which takes the world and man as two immutable (constant) entities, thereby leading one to make various educational and political inferences about it. Having explained the inferences at issue, the present article seeks to explore the capacity of the theory of the trans-substantial motion in the Transcendent Philosophy to formulate transcendent political philosophy of certain kind.