A critic of Gholamreza Fayazi's criticisms of Mulla Sadra's arguments in the denial of reincarnation

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Mahmud saidy ¹
• Muhammad musawy ²

¹ Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Wisdom, Shahid University

² Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Wisdom, Razavi University of Islamic Sciences

10.22067/epk.2025.91784.1408

Abstract

Reincarnation is one of the most important philosophical issues in the history of human thought, which great philosophers have raised many issues to prove or disprove. Mulla Sadra disproves the theory of reincarnation by using the two proofs of the refusal of the combination of two actual and potential dignity in one object and the necessity of stopping the speaking soul from performing actions when it is cut off from the first body to belong to the second body. The main criticisms raised by Fayazi to these arguments are due to confusion and fallacies in these cases: the concept of power and talent and its relationship with actuality, the union of the speaking soul with the body, and the weak and incompleteness of the body compared to the speaking soul. The intensity of the essential movement and its attribution to the actuality of different levels without losing the former actuality and the contradiction of some problems with each other.

Keywords: Mulla Sadra, reincarnation, power, actuality, Fiyazi, speaking soul, body.

Keywords

• Mulla Sadra
• reincarnation
• power
• actuality
• Fiyazi
• speaking soul

Main Subjects

• Islamic Philosophy and Kalam

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