Investigating the Role of Emotions as the Interface between Action and Opinion

Document Type : Research Article

Author

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch, Karaj, Iran(Corresponding Author)

Abstract

Why and how pure human perceptions lead to action is one of the most important issues in any anthropology. It seems that human emotions as perceptions caused by practical intellect can be a good option to justify the relationship between action and opinion. Mulla Sadra, as one of the school-building philosophers in Islamic philosophy and a philosopher who has a holistic view of various issues, has considered the relationship between action and opinion and how to obtain action from the point of view. However, although he seeks to justify this relationship by relying on practical reason, he has not paid direct attention to emotion. He believes that in addition to pure cognition, there are perceptions that are pleasure and pain. These perceptions are the result of recognizing the mildness or non-mildness of phenomena in themselves and therefore lead the pure perception to action. Emotional states are either a kind of pleasure or a kind of pain. So emotions are the interface between action and opinion. Because emotions are cognitive-value and are shaped by our beliefs and goals, they can shape both actions that are animal in nature and actions that are in harmony with our human nature and are derived from our lofty goals and ends. So although emotions are cognitive matters and all human beings benefit from them, they are not necessarily optional and reasonable.

Keywords

Main Subjects

References

جوادی، محسن (1385). «نظریه ملاصدرا درباره عقل عملی». خردنامه صدرا. ش43. ص32ـ29.
سبزواری، حاج ملاهادی (1413ق). شرح منظومه. تحقیق حسن حسن‌زاده آملی. تهران: نشر ناب.
سجادی، جعفر (1379). فرهنگ اصطلاحات فلسفی ملاصدرا. تهران: وزارت فرهنگ و ارشاد اسلامی.
ملاصدرا، محمد بن ابراهیم (1354). مبدأ و معاد. تصحیح و تحقیق سید جلال­الدین آشتیانی. تهران: انجمن حکمت و فلسفه ایران.
——. (1360). الشواهد الربوبیة فى المناهج السلوکیة. مشهد: مرکز نشر دانشگاهی.
——. (1363). مفاتیح الغیب‏. مقدمه و تصحیح محمد خواجوى‏. تهران: مؤسسه تحقیقات فرهنگى.
——. (1981م). الحکمة المتعالیة فى الاسفار العقلیة الاربعة. بیروت: دار احیاء التراث العربی. ‏ ‏
De Souse, R. (1987). The Rationality of Emotion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Gordon, R. M. (1987). The Structure of Emotion: Investigations in Cognitive Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gosling, J. C. B. (1969). Pleasure and Desire. Oxford: Claredon Press.
Gosling, J. C. B; Taylor, C. C. W. (1982). The Greek on Pleasure. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Lyons, W. (1980). Emotion. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Nussbaum, Martha C. (2000). “Duties of Justice. Duties of material Aid: Cicero Problematic Legacy”. Journal of Political Philosophy. Vol.8. No.2. pp.176-206.
SADRĀ’I WISDOM
Volume 9, Issue 1 - Serial Number 17
December 2020
Pages 163-173

Files

History

  • Receive Date: 28 November 2018
  • Revise Date: 10 March 2019
  • Accept Date: 09 April 2019

Share

How to cite

Statistics