Ibn Sina · Theology

The Soul and the Active Intellect

Ibn Sina’s theory of how the human mind comes to know - by receiving the forms of things from a cosmic ‘Active Intellect,’ the last of the heavenly minds.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that for Ibn Sina, knowing involves receiving intelligible forms from the Active Intellect. Reconstruct his account of how the mind comes to understand, and one problem with it, in your own words.

Leads to Ibn Rushd.

epoché — a humanities education that remembers you.