The issue of the human soul in the thought of Ibn Sina An analytical descriptive study

Abstract

The issue of the human soul is considered one of the philosophical issues that philosophers have given great care to since ancient times and they have dealt with its issues in their books, and they had different and different opinions about it among themselves, because self-knowledge is a key to knowing God Almighty, and when a person knows himself by which he knows his Lord who His successor on earth, and the importance of the study comes in that it shows how Ibn Sina; He derived his theory about the human soul from Greek philosophy as well as the intertwining of the Islamic religion, and how he was able to profoundly influence the philosophers that followed after him, especially Al-Ghazali, who was influenced by him in many psychological aspects, such as his definition of the soul and its division of the three forces of the soul, and within this framework, Ibn Sina's opinions were not devoid of mystical notes We find him looking at man and what he is a spiritual view, and given the nature of the research present in our hands, which aims to clarify Ibn Sina’s thought on the human soul and its relationship to the body, about proving its existence and its divisions, and how to attain happiness in the hereafter and acquire virtues. In its framework, the analytical method will be relied on, which will be applied in the structural structure of the research, in order to determine the scientific value of Ibn Sina's doctrine in the human soul and to highlight its position among other previous philosophers