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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Mulla Sadra's Seddiqin Argument For the Existence of God Chapter 1: Philosophical Foundations of the "Seddiqin Argument" Introduction: The "Seddiqin Argument" offered by Mulla Sadra is the result of the development of previous philosophical views in the history of Islamic philosophy.

Since the "Seddiqin Argument" can have no useful result without its philosophical foundations, the study and scrutiny of these foundations is important to the explanation of the argument and have rendered argument strong in opposition to many criticisms that had troubled others before and after Mulla Sadra.

If there are problems in his arguments it must be in its foundations, and if there are strengths in his arguments against the systematic criticisms to the arguments for the existence of God, these should be found also, in his philosophical foundations. Thus, in this research we will propound, at the beginning, the basic views of Mulla Sadra's philosophy.

We will explain in this study, only these parts of his philosophy that are useful for the "Seddiqin Argument", and then we will set forth his demonstration. The main character of Sadra's philosophy is the "fundamental reality of existence" and its results, which affect deeply other parts of philosophy. His viewpoint provided different solutions for many philosophical problems1.

Hence, his philosophy is called "a philosophy of fundamental reality of existence" because it is the result of precise study in the circumstances of existence. Distinguishing between the "notion" of existence and its deepest reality is the main subject of his metaphysics because, in his view, confusion between the "concept" and "reality" of existence and their specifications will cause basic mistakes.

It will be shown that many problems that caused difficulties for others - both Western and Islamic philosophy - arose from this confusion. Therefore, accuracy is needed as to which specifications belong to the "notion of existence" and which other belong to the "reality of existence". Since Tabatabai (1902-1981) has developed Sadra's viewpoint and made it stronger, We will use has commentary of Sadra's philosophy in many parts of this research.

Existence Existence is self-evident To Sadra the "notion of existence" is one of the best known concepts. It is selfevident and is reasonable by itself, because it is self apparent and makes others apparent.