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The Most Important Application of Self-knowledge… T.S. Amini et al (123

            terms  of  the  fact  that,  by           Therefore,  the  face  of  the
            appealing       to    intellectual        human  body  changes  into  a

            knowledge,  he  considers  two            vegetable  form,  then  into  an
            separate  realities  of  soul  and        animal form, and finally into
            matter, he should be called a             a human form.

            dualist. (Eslami and Akwaan,                 So, from Allameh Tabatabai's
            2019: 25)                                 viewpoint, the connection and
                                                      relationship between the soul
                2.  The Soul-Body Relationship        and  the  body  is  intrinsic  and

            Allameh Tabatabai, following              real  in  such  a  way  that  they
            the  transcendent  philosophy,            can  never  be  separated  from

            believes  that  the  human  soul          each  other.  Allameh  believes
            is  the  same  body  that  has            that  “I”  is  other  than  “My
            taken  another  creation  upon            Body”  and  it's  possible  that
            itself, without anything added            half of one's body was cut off

            to it.                                    in an accident; But he himself
               Man is a natural body at the           was not cut in half and he is
            beginning,  and  from  the                the same person as before the

            beginning  of  his  creation,             accident.  So  the  self  is  not
            takes  various  forms,  until             material      in     any     way.
            finally,  God  Almighty  gives            (Tabatabai,  1997,  Vol.  1:

            this physical and solid being,            549-551)
            another  life,  in  which  the               Bergson       explains      the
            creation      of      man      has        relationship between the soul

            consciousness  and  will,  and            and  the  body  through  the
            performs  things  that  are  not          theory  of  perception.  My
            the work of body and matter;
                                                      body is unique in that I do not
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