Ibn Sina's theory of the soul

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Abstract: Since ancient times philosophers have been interested in uncovering the mysteries of existence. They have devoted themselves to a great deal of their care' trying to understand what they are' explaining their relationship to the body' analyzing their strengths ،and knowing their fate. They had multiple writings and divergent and sometimes agreed views. Most of them went to Arabs and Muslims in translations' found in them a food for their minds and talents. As a result they were able to write and write in the matter of soul and everything related to it. Ibn Sina was the outstanding among them He wrote articles about the soul in his philosophical books such as healing' survival' signs and alerts that prove his high position in the subject' the impact was on the. philosophers of Islam. They interested in the matter of self because he took on himself study of the human body on both sides material and spiritual stopped on the first side science medicine and the second concerned with the study of the soul in general and humanity in particular in a detailed manner in which the deductive approach was collected. Mental and empirical method' where he entered through the fact of the soul and its behavioral manifestations enabled him to formulate his theory in the soul and preceded by Greek philosophers and others. Their studies were dominated by theological and metaphysical changes .This confirms that Ibn Sina was not a carrier or imitator of the philosophy of Greece and who were famous for them Such as Plato and Aristotle. Concerning the issue of influence and impact when dealing with intellectual views' in general and philosophical in particular' a natural matter for philosophers such as the influence of Ibn Sina on the definition of the soul and its types and its relationship to the body and its strengths through his knowledge of the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle