Ibn Sinaovo ontološko stajalište o ljubavi
Ibn Sina’s Ontological View of Love

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses Ibn Sina’s ontological view of love using a philosophical-gnostic approach. By applying the method of gradation, Ibn Sina sees the most sublime and the most subtle degrees of love in relation to the Creator of all the existing worlds. In his philosophical thought, Ibn Sina explains these worlds precisely in relation to the degree of love. However, what makes Ibn Sina’s gnostic thought attractive and what makes Ibn Sina’s worldview completely immersed in love, apart from the essential love of God towards Himself,are the degrees of creation, from the most sublime to the lowest degree. The next degree is connected to the holly intellectual substances, which find joy in God’s Essence and which are in love with the Absolute Goodness. The third gradated degree of love is related to the celestial Rational Souls, and then to the Perfect human Souls. The fourth and fifth degrees are related to the middle and incomplete souls, and the next ones encompass the rest existents of the World of existence, i.e. animal and vegetative souls and inanimate souls. IbnSina believes that this instinctive love, which is hidden in the essence of created beings, is actually their love for their completeness. With this explanation of the permeation of love throughout all existence, Ibn Sina approaches the gnostic view.

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