نوع مقاله : علمی پژوهشی
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This study explores the concept of love in the philosophy of Ibn Sina, tracing its trajectory from a psychological disorder to the highest form of human transcendence. The central aim is to demonstrate the underlying unity between Ibn Sina’s seemingly contradictory portrayals of love—as a pathological condition in his medical writings and as a transformative journey in his philosophical works. Using a library-based review and an analytical-interpretive method, the study argues that love, within Ibn Sina’s intellectual framework, is a gradational concept situated along a single ontological continuum. At one end lies “general love,” defined as the innate and essential inclination of every contingent being toward perfection and away from deficiency. At the other end is “particular love,” which manifests this universal inclination within the human being, shaped and directed by the faculties of the soul. When love is governed by the lower faculties of the soul—especially the estimative faculty—and detached from the guidance of reason, it emerges in a pathological form. Conversely, when the rational faculty, regarded as the noblest of the soul’s faculties, directs this innate yearning, love becomes a catalyst for spiritual ascent and the attainment of ultimate perfection: union with the True Beloved (Allah). Thus, the diversity of love’s manifestations—from earthly to divine—is not due to a difference in its essence, but rather to the varying degrees of perfection or deficiency in the soul’s faculties and their relational comparison.
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