چکیده:
In this article, an attempt is made to present a scheme of Mulla Sadra's philosophical perspective regarding the relationship between imagination and human identity using the method of analysis and inference. Such a scheme can provide a framework and vision of how the developmental interventions of imagination contribute to the structure and formation of identity. The specific form (human), the fluid form (present), and the final form (habits/malakat) are key concepts for explaining the nature of identity and its inherent fluidity. Imagination has been applied to the set of soul capacities for encountering and dealing with imaginary forms, including preservation (musawwarah), manipulation (mutasarrifah), the formation of intelligibles (mutakhayyilat), and the intellectualization of forms (mutafakkirah). Mulla Sadra's belief in the immateriality of imaginary forms, the emanation and existential nature of these forms, and the materiality (potentiality) of the soul to accept and unite with these forms are considered as the philosophical foundations for explaining the relationship between imagination and identity. Imagination has an inherent, unifying, and reciprocal relationship with identity. Through a three-fold intervention and presence, imagination is the agent of construction, the source of survival, and the mediator of awareness of identity. Identity, after its initial formation through the processes of imagination—including the creation, preservation, manipulation, and recall of imaginary forms (imagination)—is fully involved.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The Relation of Imagination with Identity in Mulla Sadra's Philosophy Seyyed Mahdi Mirhadi Hassanali Bakhtiar Nasrabadi Mohammad Najafi (Received date: 25/08/1395; Acceptance date: 15/01/1396) Abstract In this article, an attempt has been made to present a scheme of Mulla Sadra's philosophical perspective regarding the relationship between imagination and human identity, using the method of analysis and inference.
Mulla Sadra's beliefs regarding the immateriality of imaginary forms, the emanation and existential nature of these forms, and the materiality (potentiality) of the soul for accepting and uniting with these forms, are considered as the philosophical foundations for explaining the relationship between imagination and identity.
From Mulla Sadra's perspective, after their unification in species, human souls are different in essence and become very diverse; because at the beginning of its development and emergence, the soul has the capacity to accept an intellectual (or imaginary) form, unite with it, and thereby transition from potentiality to actuality (Mulla Sadra, 1391, p.
The soul, too, like a shapeless dough at the beginning of its emergence, is nothing but pure potentiality (prime matter intellect), being devoid of any form (sensory, imaginary, and intellectual) and lacking identity (Mulla Sadra, 1384a, Asfar 3/1, p.
As a potential entity, the soul can realize the process of moving from potentiality to actuality and attain identity through the acquisition of scientific and perceptual forms (sensory, imaginary, and intellectual) (Mulla Sadra, 1384a, Asfar 3/1, p.
Imagination and Identitarian Self-Awareness (Individuation) According to Mulla Sadra, the soul is the ruler and creator of its own world of imaginary forms.
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