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Ibn Sina on The Role of The Estimative Faculty in Action

Document Type : Scientific-research

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1 Ph.D , candidate of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Department of Philosophy and Logic, Faculty of Humanities, Trabiat Modares Uinversity, Tehran. Iran.

2 Professor of Philosophy and Logic Department, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Theology Department, Faculty of Theology, Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Iran

10.22059/jop.2023.353592.1006767

Abstract

From Ibn Sina's point of view, the estimative faculty is one of the most important cognitive principles of action. The prior perception of action, the use of composite imagination for action, the emergence of desire and anger through the perception of profit and harm, helping practical intellect, creating some psychological qualities such as fear or hope, producing false statements, influencing outside the body and mediating between physical states and action are among the functions of this faculty. This faculty needs to be accompanied by other cognitive faculties to have its functions. Due to its association with intellect, human estimation has achieved another function such as dogmatic judgment and making universal propositions. Similarity, experience, needs of other faculties, and the merciful inspirations of God are among the ways through which estimation reaches its perceptions without the help of intellect. In most cases, estimation perceives benefits and harms without judgment but with conceptual perception. Ibn Sina's statements about image eliciting propositions and the passivity of the soul from imaginations prove this claim. Despite Ibn Sina's attention to various dimensions of estimation and its role in action, his thought is incoherent and ambiguous in some cases. For instance, attributing universal perception to estimation in some cases and the impossibility of explaining some functions of estimation

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Philosophy
Volume 21, Issue 2 - Serial Number 41
March 2024
Pages 37-60
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  • Receive Date: 24 January 2023
  • Revise Date: 17 February 2024
  • Accept Date: 12 November 2023
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