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the external application of an substance may have the result
accident, as in the dying of a that a corporeal substance
shirt; but change could also changes into a spiritual
have its source in changes substance.
within the substance itself. Armed with these two
Change does not only occur concepts, the variable
with the exchange of accidents, intensity of existence and
as in ordinary motion, when a substantial motion, Mulla
substance exchanges one Sadra used them to explain
location for another. A substance the evolution of the soul.
itself may change without a (Ref: Legenhausen, 2014;
loss of individual identity by Kanzian and Legenhausen,
an increase or decrease in the 2010; Hajatpour and Elkaisy-
intensity of its existence. Friemuth, 2021)
Mulla Sadra called this kind We begin with a corporeal
of change in a substance substance, which develops
substantial motion, “Harakat various powers until those
Hawhariyah”. associated with life are
Identity is based on achieved. The soul begins as
continuity, not on the retention an entelechy, as a corporeal
of a substantial form, whether power and natural form.
this substantial form is In keeping with the
delineated through essential Aristotelian tradition, the soul
attributes or is constituted by (nafs) is the principle of life
a haecceity. Motion, or change, for all living things, including
occurs not only with the plants and animals. This
exchange of accidents. The develops from its elementary
changes internal to a corporeal form into a sensible
