Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• maryam barooti ¹
• Mohammad saeedimehr ²

¹ assistant professor of theology of Farhangian university

² Professor of Philosophy Department of Tarbiat Modarres University

Abstract

The so-called principle of the simple (Qaideh al-wahid) can be considered as one of the most significant and challenging philosophical principles in the context of the Islamic philosophy. In his Remarks and Admonitios, Ibn Sina has discussed this principle under the title “admonition”. For his commentator Khwaja Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, this means that Ibn Sina considers this principle as self-evident. Based on this, with a correct and precise concept of the components of the rule, we should accept it without any requirements to argumentation. In this article, we analyze each of the components of the principle by the method of conceptual analysis and then we examine the consistency between these components. The conclusion is that some of these components are inconsistent with the others and therefore there is no reasonable ground for admitting that the principle is self-evident.

Keywords

• Ibn Sina"
• the simple"
• simplicity"
• "
• emanation"