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(2003) The passions of the soul in the metamorphosis of becoming, Dordrecht, Springer.
Avicenna's (ibn Sina) phenomenological analysis of how the soul (nafs) knows itself ('ilm al-huduri)
Mehdi Aminrazavi
pp. 91-98
Theory of Knowledge by Presence is generally attributed to Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī, the founder of the School of Illumination (ishrāq)1 and it is he who offers extensive arguments to prove that the self knows itself through a direct and unmediated mode of cognition. However, as is often the case, the most seemingly original ideas are based on or inspired by previous intellectual endeavors. Suhrawardī's theory of 'ilm al-hudūrī is not an exception either, and upon careful inquiry one finds an early form of this epistemological theory in Ibn Sīnā. This early form of Ibn Sīnā's 'ilm al-hudūrī is found both as an argument made explicitly to conclude the direct and unmediated nature of self-awareness as well as the argument in its implied form. We will examine both of them closely.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0229-4_7
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Aminrazavi, M. (2003)., Avicenna's (ibn Sina) phenomenological analysis of how the soul (nafs) knows itself ('ilm al-huduri), in , The passions of the soul in the metamorphosis of becoming, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 91-98.
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