Rethinking Ibn Sina's Position on the Unification of Intellect, Intellector and Intelligible

Ibn Sina is generally considered as the first Islamic philosopher who refuted the principle of the unification of Intellect, Intellector and Intelligible in the history of philosophical thinking in Islam. Ibn Sina's views on this principle are examined mainly on the basis of his arguments against this principle in his most influential books, Kitab al-shifa'(The Book of Healing) and Kitab al-Isharat (The Book of Pointers). The goal which I seek to achieve in the present enquiry is to rethink Ibn Sina's views on this principle on the basis of his later works such as al-Mabda' wa al-m`ad (On the Origin and the Return), and also to discuss whether or not this principle is compatible with his metaphysics.

Author

• Aavani, Nariman

Language

• en

Keyword

• Ibn Sina
• Intellect
• Unification

Date created

• 2014

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Religion

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• Nasr, Seyyed Hossein

Committee Member(s)

• Pemberton, Kelly
• Faghfoory, Mohammad

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/t148fh25m