The conceptual Articulation of distinction of "Mind" versus "Soul" from the point of view of Sadrul Matalhin

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Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Studies and Humanities, Amir Kabir University

10.22034/iw.2024.419050.1728

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The Cartesian frame of mind, which is dominant in philosophy and the new age, introduces man not as a soul, but as a thinking essence. In this view, the essence of man in contrast to his body is the mind, in which the various characteristics of the Aristotelian soul, such as passivities, will, reasoning, and theoretical and practical reflections, are all referred to. But Aristotle's idea in defining the soul, that is, the logos that observes (belongs to) the body, was accepted and continued in Islamic philosophy. The current research, paying attention to the difference between the mind in the thought of contemporary Western philosophy and the soul in the thought of Muslim philosophers, aims to provide a preliminary formulation of the conceptual distinction between the mind and the concept with the soul by logical analysis and examining the views of Sadrul Matalhin.

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Available Online from 12 March 2024

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