Theoretical Analysis of the Perceptual Position of Imagination and Related Basic Concepts from Mullā Ṣadrā’s Point of View with the Perspective of Cognitive Psychology

Abstract

Cognitive psychology is one of the important branches of psychology in which it deals with important concepts related to perception, language, comprehension and how information is processed. Since Mullā Ṣadrā is a thinker who has had many opinions about man; therefore, it is possible to extract his views in various fields of psychology. In this regard, this article deals with the issue of imagination as one of the important concepts in cognitive psychology and has shown that the concepts of common sense (sensus communis), imagination, fear, memory, modifying (faculty of disposal), imaginative (faculty of imagination) and cogitative faculty places in the perceptual system of imagination and determines the mechanism of each.

Keywords

• imagination
• cognitive psychology
• mullā ṣadrā