Work
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Mabḥaṯ fī al-quwā al-nafsāniyya

Author

Ibn Sīnā, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh, 980‒1037

Date of creation
  • 5th century   Hegirian
    11th century   Gregorian
Preferred title

Mabḥaṯ fī al-quwā al-nafsāniyya   Arabic  IDEO-IFAO transliteration scheme

مبحث في القوى النفسانية   Arabic  

Variant title work
  • Mabḥaṯ ʿan al-quwā al-nafsāniyya   Arabic  IDEO-IFAO transliteration scheme
  • Kitāb fī al-nafs ʿalā sunnat al-iḫtiṣār wa muqtaḍā ṭarīqat al-manṭiqiyyīn   Arabic  IDEO-IFAO transliteration scheme
  • Hadiyyat al-Raʾīs Abī ʿAlī ibn Sīna ahdāha li-l-Amīr   Arabic  IDEO-IFAO transliteration scheme
  • Maqālat fī al-nafs allafahā Ibn Sīna li-l-Amīr Nūḥ ibn Manṣūr al-Sāmānī   Arabic  IDEO-IFAO transliteration scheme
  • Maqāla fī al-nafs   Arabic  IDEO-IFAO transliteration scheme
  • Kitāb al-nafs   Arabic  IDEO-IFAO transliteration scheme
  • al-ʿAšrat fuṣūl   Arabic  IDEO-IFAO transliteration scheme
Work type Single work
Non-literary work Discursive work
Work manifested Early work
Work genre Textual work
Audience

Adult, serious

Nature of content

الفلسفة
علم النفس القديم
علم النفس السينوي

Nature of content

Philosophy
Ancient Psychology

Summary

كتب ابن سينا هذه الرسالة المختصرة في النفس خصيصًا للأمير نوح بن منصور، وأهداها له. أثبت فيها القوى النفسانية ثمّ أوضحها، وقسّمها، ثمّ أفرد كل قوة من القوى بالشرح. كما شرح الحواسّ الظاهرة والباطنة. ثمّ أقام البراهين الضرورية على أنّ النفس الناطقة جوهر، وأقام الحجة على وجود جوهر عقلي منفصل وهو مصدر القوى النطقية.

Summary

Avicenna dedicated this epistle to the prince Nōḥ ibn Manṣūr al-Sāmānī. In this epistle, he proved the existence of the faculties of the soul and classified them. He also explained every faculty separately. In addition to explaining the exterior and interior senses, he proved that human reason is an essence. Finally, he proved that there is a collective reason which exists in a form of essence that is separate from any material attachments, and which acts as a source for every human reason.

Bibliography

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Diamond   W 15501

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Updated at 17-11-2022 by Khadija Kamal (IDEO)


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