Some Critiques to Avicenna’s Thoughts on Spiritual Resurrection Cover Image

İbn Sina’da Ruhsal Diriliş ve Bazı İtirazlar
Some Critiques to Avicenna’s Thoughts on Spiritual Resurrection

Author(s): Gürbüz Deniz
Subject(s): Philosophy, Metaphysics, Theology and Religion, Middle-East Philosophy
Published by: Anadolu İlahiyat Akademisi
Keywords: Maad; resurrection; nafs; al-nafs al-natiqa; absolute ghaib; delimited ghaib; contingency; corporeal body;

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to give an outline and provide a critique about the perspectives in a booklet named as al-adhawiyyah fi’l-ma’ad written by Avicenna. He suggests that the maad or resurrection will be merely spiritual, not corporeal. And he refers three points to support his thesis. Thus his thesis is constructed on three arguments about spiritual resurrection: the argument on which is based on invisible World and argument on material insufficiency and the argument in which he argued that the nafs do not need to the body. By this article it is argued against Avvicenna’s argument on unknown world by reinterpreting it. As a response to the material incompleteness argument it is tried to provide a new interpretation on the resurrection. And the last counter argument is that how the nafs needs to corporeal body in this World, it will need to the body in the life hereafter as well.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 103-120
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Turkish