Special Issue March 2016 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL STUDIES ISSN 2356-5926 http://www.ijhcs.com/index.php/ijhcs/index Page 220 Analyzing intellectual training based on Mulla Sadra's epistemology Sayyed Hossain Vaezi Assistant Professor, Department of Theology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran, Mobile: +989133188792. Corresponding Author: sh.vaezi@khuisf.ac.ir Shahla Fathi M.A. in History and Philosophy of Education, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran shahlafathi71@yahoo.com Abstract The present research is a qualitative study that is aimed at exploring intellectual training. Following an analytic-deductive method, it tries to explain the relation between philosophy and intellectual training within the framework of Mulla Sadra's epistemology. By analyzing the main aspects of knowledge in Transcendent Philosophy and unification of sane and sensible, it tries to explain the essentials, objectives, principles, and methods of intellectual training. Some results of the study indicated that Mulla Sadra's philosophy emphasizes the intellectual aspect of human and the necessity of intellectual training to the extent that he believes that strengthening the intellectual aspects of human guides him towards the fact of existence. Therefore, he has evaluated the intellect in different levels and believes that moving through these phases needs educational stages to be achieved. So, the trainee finally achieves the active intellect because this intellect will grow only in the knowledge base. Moreover, some educational implications related to epistemology indicate that Sadraian training objectives are explainable within the framework of results- and process-oriented approaches. The principles of Sadraian philosophy include the entanglement of the soul and the body, association of science with existence, skeptic unity of science, singleness of understanding and etc. Keywords: Mulla Sadra; epistemology; intellectual training; intellect.