PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS FOR BODILY RESURRECTION

Abstract

This article examines Mullâ Shadrâ’s eschatological thought as the philosophical arguments for bodily resurrection. Eschatology not only investigates the meaning of death, reality of soul, proof of life after death, but also studies the soul bodily resurrection. With regard to soul, almost all Muslim philosophers agree on soul resurrection, but they differ however, as far as the body is concerned. Different to the previous essentialists philosophers, Mullâ Shadrâ who adhered to existentialist school argued that as the case of soul, man’s body itself would be similarly resurrected in the hereafter. Shadrâ supported his argument by existentialist philosophy approach leaned on the principle of trans-substantial motion. Through this approach, Shadrâ succeeded philosophically in proofing the necessity of soul and bodily resurrection simultaneously in the hereafter.