Ma`rifat Falsafi

The question “Who someone is?” is the realm that distinguishes human individuals from others, and the answer to this question leads to “self-knowledge.” In this research, getting through “anthropology,” which pertains to the typical human species, we go into the sphere of “self-knowledge,” which pertains to the human individual, in pursuit of a philosophical model by which individual identities can be understood. Meanwhile, we will first examine the views of two Muslim philosophers, namely Suhrawardī and Mullasadra, to clarify the background of the issue and distinguish the author's view from theirs. Next, the author will put forward his accepted view on self-knowledge -that comprises the constituents of “who someone is?”- which appears to possess advantages such as “generalizability” compared to the views of the two above-mentioned philosophers.