
HoP 188 - Sajjad Rizvi on Mulla Sadra
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Are You a Neoplatonist?
"The best way to understand someone like Heather is precisely in terms of neoplatonism," he says. Kazale accused the philosophers of unbelief, which is the resurrection of the body. Sadra actually has two accounts for what constitutes the body of the afterlife - one being that it's a spiritual or immaterial survival of the soul. "It's so clear from the sources, but it's more and more that the comparison with late Neoplatonism ... is a very fruitful way of understanding it."
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