The process of aesthetic perception: Based on Mullā Sadrā’s views

In this study I am trying to find the process of sensory perception of beauty and its philosophical pimplications. I intend to find how the actualized form of beauty in physical bodies can be perceived by human senses and how the human cognitive faculties encounter these forms and what implications follow. My approach in this study is descriptive-analytic. On the basis of clear postulations and principles using relevant keywords in the framework of Mulla Sadra’s philosophy. I refer to Mulla Sadra’s explicit and implicit words in this regard. I try to describe and analyze theme and relate them to Mulla Sadra’s general philosophical and theological principles in order to come to a conclusion that can be attributed to him. The issue in question is not merely a descriptive one, for Mulla Sadra has not explicitly dealt with the concept of beauty and its relation to existence. Moreover, he did not offer a systematic philosophical account of sensory perception. This and other challenges are difficulties of this study and its importance. The outcome of this research in the first chapter is that all degrees of beauty is interconnected to perfection and is from the category of existence. By using intellectual concepts we can find characteristics of beauty in all its various levels. In the second chapter describing and analyzing the principles of knowledge and components of sensory perception. I came to a clear vision of cooperation between cognitive faculties and their interaction with the soul and intellect. Based on these studies, in the final chapter Mulla Sadra’s view of sensory perception of beauty and its process is explained, some of the characteristics of concept of beauty and related concepts such as harmony are discussed, and the status of aesthetic statements and the nature of aesthetic pleasure are analyzed.