The Impact of the Ontological Identity of Perception on the Substantive Intensity of the Soul and Its Philosophical Approach to Artistic Creativity with Emphasis on Mulla Sadra's View

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Mohammad Reza Layeghi
Assistant Professor, Department of Theology, Faculty of Humanities, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran
Abstract
The nature of human perception has been one of the most important philosophical issues from ancient times to the present. Philosophers have considered perception as presence and have discussed its identity. From Mulla Sadra's perspective, perception has an ontological identity. Every perception is a illumination that the existence of the known brings about in the human rational soul. This existential process expands the scope of the human soul and, consequently, enhances its substantive intensity. On the other hand, based on a philosophical principle, the greater the intensity of an existence's realization, the more it influences and the less it is influenced. Based on these two philosophical premises, it can be inferred that for the growth of their artistic creativity, an artist must increase the scope of their knowledge and, through it, enhance the substantive realization of their soul. In this process, the artist, through successive "becomings" by increasing the forms of knowledge in their soul, expands the existential capacity of the soul as a creative gem, thereby attaining greater artistic creativity. 
This research is organized in a library-based manner using a descriptive-analytical method. 

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Theoretical Studies of Art
Volume 5, Issue 8
October 2025
Pages 367-380