Document Type : Scientific Research
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1 Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Kalam, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran.
2 MA in Islamic Philosophy and Kalam, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran (corresponding author).
Abstract
One of the Mulla Sadra’s basic principles to demonstrate man’s corporeal resurrection is attention to the place of the faculty of imagination. He explains the nature of the faculty of imagination and believes the necessity of its continuity after death. One of the fundamental functions of the faculty of imagination is the image of corporeal essence of man in intermediary world which based on Mulla Sadra’s belief, spiritual resurrection comes true in this world. Some believes that Mulla Sadra has also generalized the function and the role of the faculty of imagination in intermediary world to Doomsday arena. The creation of other-worldly body is carried out by the faculty of imagination and innovation of soul. Consequently, corporeal resurrection considered by Mulla Sadra is an imaginal body which is not consistency with traditional arguments. With his amazing by this interpretation, Mulla Sadra expressed his objection with gathering of other-worldly bodies in the mould of an imaginal body. He distinguishes between the function of the faculty of imagination in intermediary world and Doomsday arena and maintains gathering of bodies from graves and the blowing of spirits in them by angles. Through relying on rational arguments and citing some of Mulla Sadra terms, this paper demonstrates that the function of the faculty of imagination in intermediary world is different from that one in Doomsday arena and it has no role in creation of other-worldly body.
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