Abstract
Abstract This chapter discusses Ibn Sina’s (Avicenna’s) account of the nature of the soul as it treated in his The Book of Salvation. The first section introduces Ibn Sina’s life and works. The second section explicates Ibn Sina’s Aristotelian account of the function of the intellect. The third section sets out two arguments made by Ibn Sina for the conclusion that the (theoretical) intellect is immaterial. The fourth section looks at Ibn Sina’s argument for the immortality of the soul. Finally, the fifth section discusses three views on the nature of personal identity: that personal immortality is tied to the persistence of an immaterial soul, that it is dependent upon the persistence of a soul-body union, that it is constituted by psychological continuity.
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