Medicine or philosophy first for Ibn Sina?
A gifted young man named Ibn Sina carried two talents: medicine healing people today, and philosophy thinking the world forever. The decision: focus the life on the Canon of medicine and treating patients, or on the Healing and uncovering the laws of mind and being?
The positions
the medicine party
the body is today's trust; medicine serves every human
The evidence
he wrote the Canon, medicine's reference for centuries everywhere
Sources: person/ibn-sina
the philosophy party
the mind that thinks heals more than one hand
The evidence
he wrote the Healing and the Pointers in philosophy, logic and doctrine
Sources: person/ibn-sinaplace/baghdad
You decide
If you had his mind, what would you have focused on? Write your reason.
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