Philosophical theories on self-fighting and taste knowledge according to Ibn Sina

Abstract

The aim of the research is to discuss Ibn Sina’s ideas from a rational and mystical perspective, and how he combined positive scientific thinking based on witnessing tangible reality with philosophical contemplation based on abstract mental consideration, and how he sought to find a justification for philosophy and mysticism in the human soul itself, not in a factor or motive It is external, because the essence of the rational soul is prudence and awareness of things as they are, so it becomes true knowledge, and to the extent that the soul knows the existential truth, its perfection and its proximity to the reasonable world and its emulation of it. It is that the soul according to Ibn Sina, if it reaches the highest levels of perfection, is prepared to receive the taste knowledge about God, and that the purpose of the soul’s journey with him is to focus on the innermost knowledge of the self, and a closer knowledge of the soul so that its owner becomes balanced and the soul is no longer alien to itself and becomes the master of its actions and reaches moral perfection Although Ibn Sina was influenced by the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle in this aspect, his views are mostly taken from the Islamic religion because he is a Muslim philosopher.