Avicenna is also known as Ibn Sina, the most important philosopher in Arabic tradition. He made a point to not be an Islamic theologian but rather to study the Greek Philosophers, in particular Aristotle. In some ways he thought remarkably like Aristotle and in other ways he was completely different.
One of those differences came to be in the relationship between mind (self/soul) and body. Aristotle taught that the mind and body were one unit, the mind is responsible for all the things the body does and ergo is not able to be separated from it.
Ibn Sina was a dualist, saying the the body and the mind are two distinct substance (just as Plato did). He came up with the Floating Man experiment to demonstrate his thinking.
Ibn Sina was a dualist, saying the the body and the mind are two distinct substance (just as Plato did). He came up with the Floating Man experiment to demonstrate his thinking.
Also called the Flying man or the falling man experiment. Even with sensory deprivation a person is still aware of their own experiences.
By all account Acivenna was a brilliant person, memorizing the Qur'an by age 10, surpoassing this educators in logic by age 12, studying medicine by age 16 and so forth. His study of medicine helped him cure the Sultan, therefore giving him access to the Sultan's extensive library.
Acivenna was a man with great medical knowledge, his Canon of Medicine influenced European Schools of medicine into the 17th century. He also studied: physics, natural sciences and metaphysics. He was already writing books by the time he was 21 years of age, with his Canon of Medicine being his renown work. He wandered for years from one place to the next until he settled in Hamadan living there until the death of the emir, when he left to live the last 12 years of his life working with the ruler in Isfahan. He died at 58 years old from severe Colic.
By all account Acivenna was a brilliant person, memorizing the Qur'an by age 10, surpoassing this educators in logic by age 12, studying medicine by age 16 and so forth. His study of medicine helped him cure the Sultan, therefore giving him access to the Sultan's extensive library.
Acivenna was a man with great medical knowledge, his Canon of Medicine influenced European Schools of medicine into the 17th century. He also studied: physics, natural sciences and metaphysics. He was already writing books by the time he was 21 years of age, with his Canon of Medicine being his renown work. He wandered for years from one place to the next until he settled in Hamadan living there until the death of the emir, when he left to live the last 12 years of his life working with the ruler in Isfahan. He died at 58 years old from severe Colic.
Sources:
The Philosophy book
Philosophers UK.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Kevyn Lim.
The Philosophy book
Philosophers UK.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Kevyn Lim.
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