The matter of self-knowledge as a divine act in Avicenna
| dc.authorid | 0000-0002-2918-6131 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bilgin, Büşra | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-11T12:20:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-07-11T12:20:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.department | AÇÜ, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Felsefe Bölümü | |
| dc.description.abstract | In Avicenna's epistemology, self-knowledge refers to a genuine identity of the perpetrator, actual and object of process of knowing for a person. The belief of Avicenna that the creator of the world's pure reason and that he created the world through self-reflection reveals that the act of self-knowledge is a Divine act. In Avicenna's cosmology, God emerges First Mind, the thing that most resembles himself by thinking about himself. This First Mind emerges the mind that comes after it by thinking about God and itself, and the celestial fortune corresponding to this mind, and its soul. Thus, this overflow continues until the last (active) mind, creating multiplicity and causal chain in the world. The most important part that attracts attention in this theory of creation is that the creative verb is to think/reason/know. In other words, God performs his Divinity by thinking because he is the mind, and every intelligent being he creates also receives a share from him in certain proportions. A person's ability to think, produce, and reach the truth by reasoning is directly proportional to the share he receives from God. The aim of this study is to show that the part of man that is most similar to God, based on Avicenna's theory of creation, is to understand and be able to think for himself. As a result, the fact that the soul is a substance, what we call ourselves is not a body but a soul, and that we don't need a body to know ourselves, by knowing ourselves we will actually get a little closer to the creator in order to understand universe, and with this we can achieve eternal happiness, has been clarified by many arguments. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.60163/hbv.108.015 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 305 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 13068253 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 108 | |
| dc.identifier.scopus | s2.0-85194928862 | |
| dc.identifier.scopusquality | Q3 | |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 287 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11494/5774 | |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Scopus | |
| dc.institutionauthor | Bilgin, Büşra | |
| dc.institutionauthorid | 0000-0002-2918-6131 | |
| dc.language.iso | tr | |
| dc.publisher | Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Turk Kulturu ve Haci Bektas Veli - Arastirma Dergisi | |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.subject | Avicenna | |
| dc.subject | Divine Action | |
| dc.subject | Highest Happiness | |
| dc.subject | Islamic Philosophy | |
| dc.subject | Minerality of Soul | |
| dc.subject | Self-Knowledge | |
| dc.title | The matter of self-knowledge as a divine act in Avicenna | |
| dc.title.alternative | İbn Sînâ’da tanrısal bir eylem olarak kendini bilme meselesi | |
| dc.type | Article |
