Avicenna thought model
Persia · c. 980–1037
A giant of Islamic philosophy who unified medicine, metaphysics, and the theory of the intellect.
Perspective
See the ordered hierarchy of body, intellect, and being, and confusion resolves into something you can understand.
Value model
Individual agency55
Rational inquiry85
Risk awareness30
Social conformity70
Self-overcoming72
Practicality40
Language skepticism25
Decision principles
- Take the body's condition into account when you judge.
- Arrange causes into a hierarchy.
- Let the intellect bring order to the confusion.