Here, too, man applies the term `necessity' as found in...

Here, too, man applies the term `necessity' as found in external nature to the relation between himself and his goal. Such necessities and oughts created by the mind, arise out of such conceptions. The Allamah is of the view that such oughts exist in every voluntary act and in every conscious animal. The earlier Muslim philosophers did not believe in such an ought or imperative.

They only held that man first conceives the benefit in something, then there arises a desire for it, followed by a resolution. They described its various…