Quiddity of Ego and its Relationship with the Perception Process and Sadra’ean Training

Transcendentalism is one of the most primary and most comprehensive schools of Islamic philosophy with its lofty palace having been constructed by Sadr Al-Mota’allehin; it has been one of the most coherent philosophical systems since its creation and, as believed by many, it has been able to offer an innovative cosmology which is a summation between the intuition and intellect through combining the notions of Bu Ali, Sheikh Eshraq and Ibn Arabi. From the perspective of Mulla Sadra, soil is the source of the human ego’s genesis and it evolves from an inanimate to a plant-like life thence to an animal ego. Upon being born, the human beings use the sensory instruments entrusted in them and start moving on the path of evolution towards the human ego so as to pass through the stage of senses and imaginations and reach the stage of intellect as the distinct feature between the human beings and the animals. Since the utmost perfection and the ultimate goal of the human beings’ creation is reaching intuition, the present article has proved through the use of an analytical-deductive method that the human perfection is of the perception type and related to the fostering of the human intellect. Corroboration of intellect, in both theoretical wisdom and practical wisdom, brings about an increase in the ego’s perception and its ascent from a potential state to connection to active intellect and intuition of the creatures’ forms in active intellect.