I haven't read any Avicenna, or Ibn Sina, but based on everything I've read about him, that is, as he influenced later thinkers such as al-Ghazali, Ibn Rushd (Averroes), and Aquinas, he seems like a great philosopher. If I'm not mistaken, he originated the "Floating Man" thought experiment which basically became the cornerstone of Descartes' argument for the total separation of thought and extension, or body and mind.
Anyway, the argument is compelling in some ways, but it basically sounds to me like an equivalent of Spinoza's God, which is to say, Nature is infinite and everything is eternally necessary. In other words, this is hardly the God of Islam or any particular deity that vies for the attention of certain regions of the terrestrial spheres. So... why call it God?
Anyway, the argument is compelling in some ways, but it basically sounds to me like an equivalent of Spinoza's God, which is to say, Nature is infinite and everything is eternally necessary. In other words, this is hardly the God of Islam or any particular deity that vies for the attention of certain regions of the terrestrial spheres. So... why call it God?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
