REALITAS JIWA SEBAGAI BASIS ONTO-EPISTEMOLOGI PENGALAMAN RELIGIUS
Kanz Philosophia A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism December 31, 2020 Imandega Muhammad 2 citations
Neuroscience often interprets religious experience as a symptom of brain disorders, equating the soul with measurable brain activity, which would reduce prophetic revelations to neurological malfunction. This paper argues against that view by examining the ontological and epistemological foundations of religious experience through the lens of Al-Ḥikmah Muta’āliyah, the philosophical school founded by Mulla Ṣadrā. Using a descriptive-analytic method, the study shows that Ṣadrā's concept of graded levels of existence (wujūd) includes the soul as an immaterial substance capable of perceiving metaphysical objects, such as divine emanations. This framework provides a basis for understanding religious experience as genuine rather than pathological.