Avicennovo učení o lásce

Title:

Avicennovo učení o lásce
Avicenna's teachings on love

Creator:

Vitásková, Magdaléna

Identifier:

https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/125403

Subject:

Avicenna (Ibn Sina), Islamic philosophy, teachings on love, God's love, Islamic psychology, Islamic cosmology, hierarchy of forms, and Study of Religions

Type:

Article

Format:

text/pdf

Description:

Avicenna (Ibn Sina, 980-1037) was one of the most highly regarded philosophers in eastern Islamic lands. This article analyses the theme of love (ḥubb / 'ishq) in the broader context of Avicenna's psychological and cosmological teachings. This analysis is mainly based on the interpretation of two of the philosopher's works dealing with this theme, namely The Treatise on Love (Risala fi 'l- 'ishq) and The Living, Son of the Vigilant (Hayy ibn Yaqdhan). In the first part of the article attention is paid to the phenomenon of love as a means to achieving the perfection of form (i.e. the soul), proceeding in a hierarchy of beings from the roughest to the purest. The second part draws a brief picture of Avicenna's opinion on love between humans, describing gazing at a beautiful face and embracing and kissing a beloved person as ennobling activities. The third part is dedicated to love between man and God, a topic which was always considered controversial. While Islamic philosophy denounced the possibility of God's love for man, Islamic mysticism (Sufism) focused on this motif. Avicenna seems to stand just on the boundary between these two different attitudes, when he describes God as loving his own manifestation in the Universe.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

unknown

Relation:

https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/en/handle/11222.digilib/124610
https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/en/_flysystem/fedora/pdf/125403.pdf

Harvested from:

Digital Library of Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University

Metadata only:

false

Date:

2012