Perception Levels and Philosophical Secondary İntelligible According to Ibn Sīnā Cover Image

İbn Sînâ’da İdrak Mertebeleri ve İkinci Felsefî Ma’kûller
Perception Levels and Philosophical Secondary İntelligible According to Ibn Sīnā

Author(s): Sedat Baran
Subject(s): Epistemology, Islam studies, Philosophy of Religion, 6th to 12th Centuries, History of Religion
Published by: Tekirdağ Namık Kemal Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi
Keywords: Islamic Philosophy; Perception; Intelligibles; Abstraction; Ibn Sīnā;

Summary/Abstract: Perception and its quality are one of the most significant problems of philosophy. Ibn Sīnā expresses four different perception levels which are sense perception, imaginative perception, illusory perception and intellectual perception. In this regard, the human soul perceives the objects through their sense abilities. Then, they deliver these forms to the imagination skills, the mind separates the material accidents which this form contains and prepares the grounds required for the intellectual forms. Active intellect, then, gives intellectual forms to the human soul. There are other concepts that are perceived with senses in the human mind other than these concepts. These universal concepts do not belong to objective universe but to subjective universe. Fārābī was the first person in Islamic philosophy tradition to make this distinction and classified the intelligibles in two categories as primary and secondary intelligible. Ibn Sīnā adopts this classification and adds new explanations regarding the issue.

  • Issue Year: 6/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 291-312
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Turkish