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The relationship between body and soul in transcendental wisdom
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Hassan Dost Mohammadi   , Mehdi Basharat |
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Introduction: The relationship between the body and soul is a significant topic in various philosophical traditions, including ancient Greek, Islamic, and Western philosophy. These traditions have attempted to address the question of how the body and soul can coexist in a single entity, given their differing natures. The soul is often considered to be of a spiritual nature while the body is material. This raises the question of how these distinct entities can coexist and establish an existential relationship. Is the body like a container in which the soul is placed and, after death, it is separated from it, like a chicken freed from a cage? Or is the body like a tool that the soul needs for its actions, such as thinking and feeling, etc.? Which is no longer needed after death, or is the relationship between the body and the human soul a contract that is regulated by an external agent? Or is this relationship between the soul and the body a developmental thing? The process of material creation of the human body at the beginning in the mother's womb is such that this way of physical existence and its special structure can only be the origin of a unique spirit.
In this article explores the relationship between the body and soul in Greek and Western divine philosophies. We also discussed the views of Sadr al-Maltahin Shirazi with the title "The physical theory of occurrence and the spiritual existence of the human soul", in which the soul, although given to the body by the active intellect or the Holy Spirit, is specifically formed in the mother's womb with the unique structures: an appropriate body must be prepared so that a suitable soul can be created in it. If the soul and body are not correlated, then it is impossible for a particular soul to be matched with a particular body. At the end of the article, we will try to compare this theory with the theory of Khwaja Nasir al-Din Tusi titled "The main component of the human body" and its adaptation to the theory of "simulation" in which the DNA of each human body is a unique thing that not only determines all the physical characteristics but also must determine a special soul that will refuse just any random soul.
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| Keywords: The relationship between body and soul, Transcendental wisdom, Mulla Sadra, Khwaja Nasir al-Din Tusi, DNA cloning |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2024/01/28 | Accepted: 2023/08/1 | Published: 2023/08/1
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