Undergraduate Thesis by Ali Noori
This paper is concerned with ibn Sīnā's attitude towards the authority of Aristotle as well as hi... more This paper is concerned with ibn Sīnā's attitude towards the authority of Aristotle as well as his possible role as an intellectual forefather to philosophical Sufi movements. First, I situate ibn Sīnā in his historical and political context. Looking at his early education, his patronage relations and the intellectual and political climate of the Islamic Empire at the time, I offer explanations for his independence and innovation in approaching Greek philosophers. Taking advantage of the uniquely ambiguity of the Aristotelean passages on the Active Intellect (De Anima III.5), I compare ibn Sīnā's Active Intellect to Aristotle's. There, I discuss ibn Sīnā's epistemology, paying special attention to Intuition, and how both Aristotelian and Neoplatonic influences are manifested in his synthesis of abstraction and emanation. I finally highlight the elements of mysticism that make ibn Sīnā's philosophical structure especially attractive to a philosophically inclined Sufi tradition, while rejecting that ibn Sīnā himself was a practicing Sufi.
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Undergraduate Thesis by Ali Noori
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