Page 35 - Pure Life 34
P. 35
(
/
34 International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 10(34), Spring. 2023
gradually until it is no longer ascending angle [perfecting
inseperable from the body. substantial motion]?
His efforts are to allow for
the generation of the The answer to this question
Neoplatonist immaterial immortal is not clear from the writings
soul from the Aristotelian of Mulla Sadra. There are two
corporeal entelechy; even goes possibilities:
so far as to chide Ibn Sina for First, we could say that the
treating the Theology of ascending motion starts at
Aristotle as if it had been some specific point, that is,
written by Plato. (Mulla Sadra, one part of the motion is
1981: 144) constant, and then at a certain
point it begins to ascend.
It is in regard to the instant
of the generation of the soul Second, that the ascending
as corporeal entelechy and motion was there from the
spirit that Allamah Misbah start, that is, that there is no
poses his question: specific point, but from the
Whether there is a definite very first there is a curved
point at which [material line, although until now the
substance] is transformed curvature was not perceptible
into a human spirit. If we and we did not notice it.
want to picture this, is it If it is said that this
the case that the substance perfecting motion does not
continues in a straight line start at any definite moment,
[mere persistence through but has a long history for
time] and then at some which no starting point can be
point shoots off at an found, then the question will
be raised as to how to justify
the temporal coming to be of
