#Avicenna February 4
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This February 2025, several of us are participating in the 30-Day Philosophy Coach4aday Challenge. Each day, we choose a quote or concept from a philosopher, past or present, and share it with others. Participating in this activity is actually sharing wisdom with others. My philosopher choice today is AVICENNA
Taking on a challenge especially one about philosophy has been humbling. Yet it is through humility that you begin to appreciate all that you do not know. Choosing Avicenna as my selection today proved that. His name was one I had never heard of before. Possibly being born 11 centuries ago in an area near Bukhara is one reason.
Avicenna wrote many things including his most famous work, The Canon of Medicine. That work became a standard medical text in Europe for centuries. Scholars consider him the greatest philosopher from the Islamic world.
Philosophy 30-Day Challenge Guidelines
Like previous challenges there are no hard and fast rules to participate. There are a few suggested guidelines
- Identify your choice of philosopher, and, if necessary, offer up a brief bio on that individual.
- If you need help here is a link to some famous philosophers
- Provide the quote or concept that is attributed to this philosopher.
- If sharing with others use the #Coach4adayChallenge
February 4th Philosopher–Avicenna
Avicenna became the Latinized name for Abu ‘Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina. He was not only a Muslim physician but a philosopher. He would do lecturers on not only medicine but astronomy and logic.
Quote or Concept
In medicine the goal is to find the root cause of our health. Over a thousand years ago Avicenna was telling us that with the quote below.
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. …Avicenna
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