The Attached and Detached Imagination from the Perspective of Sadr Alhokama

Abstract

According to the philosophical principles of the authenticity of existence, doubting the existence, the wide spreading movement, the unity between the perceiver and the one being perceived , Sadr Alhokama uses a existentialist approach for the processes of science and perception, Sadr Almotalehin, considers the detached imagination or the descending model to be the middle stage between the world of reason and the world of matter and believes the human’s ego to be divine in terms of creativeness because it interprets fantastical images as real ones. In the model world, fantastical images have little effect on self control because they are indeed created by the ego and all objects, such as the brain and the nervous system are counted as the numerical mediators in the creation of the images and by watching the model world and the human ego help to create a fantastical image in the attached imagination. The ego, due to its wide spreading movement, creates its own suspending image through making perceptions and actions and the mentioned image will be the cause of its pain or pleasure in the drunkenness of the afterlife. By believing in the ascending model, Sadr Alhokama succeeded in solving philosophical matters such as the state of being in the grave and in the suspending middle stage (barzakh), the emergence, physical afterlife and the imagination of actions.