Considering and Explaining the Cognitive Generality in Transcendental Philosophy

Due to acknowledging in failure of the soul in achieving the noumen of things in the tradition of Islamic philosophy, the issue of the cognitive generality becomes more apparent. But Mulla Sadra’s approach towards this issue is distinct. Sadra in his general thought, according to the disposition of the people, puts into question the ability of the human soul in achieving the noumen of things. However, he ultimately provides some solutions and propounds the concern of this issue in his final approach based on some cognitive and existential principles of his thought. In the first step, Mulla Sadra acknowledges that due to mixing of the representation of sensational and imaginary perceptions with the deficit and the existential honor of the representation of the intellectual perceptions and also due to existential lowness of the soul that requisite its physical creation, it is possible that the perceptions of the soul become ambiguous and unclear and remain in the stage of pima facie and phenomena of the things. But in the final step, with an emphasis on the real nature of knowledge, he thinks that the intensity of the soul and its excellence from the stinginess corporeality owes process of the unity of the intelligent and intelligible. Sadra believes that the more the soul become extended in the process of unification with its perceptions, the more it become excellent from the existential deficits and cognitive concerns and as a result, it achieve the perceptions that gained from noumen and the reality of the things and noumenal representatives.