Semantical Study of Ibn Sina Conception of the Object of Teology : the case of Shefa Illahyat

Sepehri, Mehdi

doi:10.30497/prr.2012.1219

Semantical Study of Ibn Sina Conception of the Object of Teology : the case of Shefa Illahyat

Document Type : Original Research

Author

Mehdi Sepehri

PhD student of Philosophy of Department, Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Iran

10.30497/prr.2012.1219

Abstract

One of the criteria of distinction betwin sciences is their objects . Philosophers also have distinguished theology from other sciences on the basis of its object . Ibn Sina in shefa illahyat has vastly dealt with this discussion . in this essay , the meaning that Ibn Sina has had in mind of the object of theology is elicited from his magnum opus , sheaf , by method of semantics . this classifies meaning-shifts and omits obscurities.

Keywords

semantics

Collocation

Object of theology

Absolute being

Being per se

Accident of object