چکیده:
The concept of time, its existence, ontology, and epistemology are considered as a pivotal philosophical issue from the ancient Greek time up to now. Aristotle explicitly deals with this subject. His notion of time can be also seen in Avicenna’s writings. This point have arisen many questions and discussions concerning that whether Avicenna as a commentator of Aristotle simply narrates Aristotle’s view, or he elaborates and develops Aristotle’s idea and presents his own view. The aim of this paper is to study this issue and discuss about the viewpoints of some Muslim scholars who believe that Avicenna’s idea is not fundamentally different from that of Aristotle. In addition, we study the viewpoints of those who believe that although Avicenna uses the same structure as Aristotle did, his specific considerations make his theory of time distinctive. The paper elaborates that, in some senses, there are at least two differences between these two philosophers: regarding the derivative / non-derivative conceptions of time, and regarding the divisibility / indivisibility of time.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Keywords: time, Avicenna, Aristotle, absolute existence, non derivative notion, divisibility .
In The Book of Healing, since Avicenna presents his own idea within Aristotelian structure and framework, it is difficult to distinguish Aristotle's notion from his own theory.
Furthermore, for acquiring a better understanding of the concept of time, the other books of Avicenna such as Deliverance, and Directives and Remarks should be considered as well.
To achieve this goal, the paper discusses the definition of time and its existence from Aristotle’s view, and then it compares the Aristotelian notion with that of Avicenna.
21 On the one hand, it seems that Aristotle explains that "past" and "future" can be considered as those parts of "time" which do not exist.
In other words, Avicenna argues that given the existence of time in an unqualified sense, [in general sense without considering past and future], is prior to anything in time and given that its notion is self- evident" (Shaygan, 1986, p.
In other words, time measures motion not in terms of spatial magnitude but in terms of priority and posteriority that cannot gather together (Avicenna, 1364 AH, p.
3-4 Time: Divisible Concept or Indivisible Razi as a commentator of Avicenna indicates that when we consider the essence of time, its divisibility does not depend on the motion.
In Avicenna's perspective, the essence of the continuity of motion is derived from time and the existence of its dividable being is derived from magnitude.