ali babaei; mahdi saadatmand
Abstract
While theologists consider art as a product of imagination and refer to imagination as an independent faculty, Sadra’s view, which is based on the unity of the soul as the source of all faculties, considers all faculties originating from the soul. Therefore, imagination is a function of the soul ...
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While theologists consider art as a product of imagination and refer to imagination as an independent faculty, Sadra’s view, which is based on the unity of the soul as the source of all faculties, considers all faculties originating from the soul. Therefore, imagination is a function of the soul and as a result resides in it. Art is the act of soul and attributing it to imagination, which is secondary, can be considered as an act of negligence. The various manifestations of the soul constitute three stages of artistic creation, the highest stage of which is the single, concise and simple stage of the collective existence of the soul. At this stage, artistic creation is one with all the elements of perfection of the soul. Therefore, all bits of knowledge exist in the human soul, and, in this regard, there is no difference between the artist, the sage and the mystic. It is only at the next level, the level of imagination and the external manifestation of the work of art, that the collective unity of the soul is revealed in a particular artistic image.
