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The Soul Between Ibn Sina And Aristotle

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The Concept of The Soul Between Ibn Sina and Aristotle
The human soul is the secret of God and it is very difficult to discuss about the soul. Until now, many scholars and researchers fight to study the nature of the soul and it relationship to the body. Now, we want to study about the concept of the soul between Ibn Sina and Aristotle. According to major idea, “the soul is defined as soul is a perfection of natural body, to the exclusion of an artificial one, since this would render any distinction between the celestial, animal, and vegetative souls impossible”. Based on Dictionary.Com, soul is defined as the principle of life, feeling, thought and action in humans, regarded as antity separate from the body and commonly held to be separable …show more content…

To prove this, he refer to holy al-Quran in 15:29 :-
“When I have fashioned him (in due proportion) and breathed into him of My spirit, fall you down in obeisance unto him”
According to Aristotle’s theory, a “soul is a particular kind of nature, a principle that accounts for change and rest in the particular case of living bodies. For example is plants, non-human animals and human beings”.
From this statement, we can see that Ibn Sina believe that soul come from God based on the verse of holy Quran while Aristotle believe that the soul have relationship with nature.
Ibn Sina gives further details on the relationship between the soul and the body:
“Man does not have one single meaning, but he is composed of two substances: one is the soul and the other the body. The soul has the role of a subject, and the body, with all its members, is like the instrument which the soul uses for its different operations. The surprising thing is that the body is not an extrinsic instrument, like a sword, but the body is an instrument that the soul joins to itself by preserving its shape and using it as it needs …show more content…

We realize that the soul is very secret to defined because soul is one of God’s secret. As we know, soul is very vital thing to us. Why we say like that? It is because human being become incomplete without soul and cannot afford to breath. It is clear that holy al-Quran also mention that the soul is blown into the human body as we was mention above. In addition, we believe that the soul is immortal thing. Hence, as a muslims person, we have to believe in secret and knowledge of God without any objection. Only God can evaluate about this and only Him knows the everything in this world. So that, we are strongly agree that Ibn Sina perspective more acceptable and strong than Aristotle

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