Ibn sina ' da bedensiz kalan ruhların ferdiyetlerinin korunup korunmadığına dair problem üzerine

Abstract

Ibn Sina fundamentally defends the idea that the human souls are individuated by their different properties in relation to the bodily experiences and thus sustain their individuality or identity in the hereafter. This view however justifies the debate how the individual souls which conjoin with the Active Intellect in this worldly life or in the hereafter can maintain their individuality particularly when they are disembodied. Ibn Sina's clearest thought about the disembodied human self is no more than that it (the self) survives after death and enjoys a life approximating to the lives of pure intellects. v||e thus, on the one hand, defends the immortality of the soul that is something incomplete,in Aristotle's principle of individuation and, on the other hand, considers that the continuity of the self is essential for reward and punishment in the afterlife. However Ibn Sina's conflicting (incoherent) views on this issue in the same or different book/s make it rather difficult to arrive at a decisive conclusion. Nevertheless he seems to have successfully made a synthesis of the Neo-Platonic ontology, the Aristotelian psychology and morality together with Islamic view of afterlife and thus provided a coherent theory out of three different domains on the intuitional grounds.