Human agency with emphasis on the role of intention in the individuation of action in the perspective of transcendental wisdom

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD student of Transcendental Wisdom, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Faculty of Theology and Ahl-al-Bayt (Prophet's Descendants) Studies, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

3 Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Faculty of Theology and Ahl-al-Bayt (Prophet's Descendants) Studies, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

Abstract

The issue of human agency _ in the sense that human being is possess action; the act which belongs to him and can be attributed to him _, is so important in the humanities that diviation criteria of great currents can be found in its given role. In other words, human knowledge, first of all, requires the recondition of an acting human being, and since a human being is an agent, actor and phenomenon-creating, is the subject of humanities. But describing a human being as an "agent" and considering his "agency" is completely dependent on our explanation of what "action" and agency are. The present work, with a wisdom approach and based on foundamentals of transcendental wisdom, firstly explains the truth of intention by referring to two completely related headings and philosophical keywords, means "ultimate cause" and "free will", and follow their role on action and finally, it shows intention as the first ever voluntary act in the chain of principles of human voluntary actions on the one hand, and also the ultimate cause of his action on the other hand, by determining the quality of the connection and voluntary union of the agent with the layers of his applied self, It forms the entire identity and the individuation of action and therefore human agency in terms of quality and quantity is tied to his intention to perform an action.

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Journal of Religious Thought : A Quarterly Journal of Shiraz University
Volume 23, Issue 88 - Serial Number 88
November 2023
Pages 117-139

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