Anthropological Bases of Transcendent Political Thought of Mullā Sadrā (part II)

In the first part of the article, Mulla Sadrā’s view of the soul and its philosophical and political consequences were explained. There it was mentioned that, for Mullā Sadrā, the soul is in continual and constant course of development and becoming while moving from the state of potentiality to that of actuality and total incorporeality, and the attainment of final human perfection is made possible through “being in society” The theory of the fundamentality of existence, substantial motion of the soul and the possibility of the sublimity of the soul have provided a metaphysical basis for intelligible and spiritual communal life in terms of various realms of the soul. In this issue of the quarterly, the bases for the sublimity of the soul in Mullā Sadrā’s view and its philosophical and political consequences have been scrutinized.