What are Avicenna's major contributions to philosophy?

answers1: he is best known as a polymath, as a physician whose major
work the Canon (al-Qanun fi'l-Tibb) continued to be taught as a
medical textbook in Europe and in the Islamic world until the early
modern period, and as a philosopher whose major summa the Cure
(al-Shifa') had a decisive impact upon European scholasticism and
especially upon Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)." <br>
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His philosophy? He translated and interpreted Aristotle 250 years
before Aquinas----because the Arabs were in possession of his words
before they were given to Aquinas. "As such, he may be considered to
be the first major Islamic philosopher." <br>
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"The second most influential idea of Avicenna is his theory of the
knowledge. The human intellect at birth is rather like a tabula rasa,
a pure potentiality that is actualized through education and comes to
know." He may have gotten this idea from Aristotle, but at any rate he
got it 500 years before John Locke made it a significant part of his
own philosophy, and Locke was an Aristotelian, too, so the connection
is strong here. <a href="http://www.iep.utm.edu/avicenna/#H6"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.iep.utm.edu/avicenna/#H6</a> <br>
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Part of his philosophy was to construct a rational idea of Islam and
he made the attempt to bring secular ideas into understanding it. He
was successful to a point, because Muslim science and civilization
moved along long before that in the west. But he fell out of disfavor,
as did Averroes (Ibn Rushd who came along later and who followed
Avicenna's ideas) and with them went the science and the great
civilization came to a halt. This is because of the Islamic cultural
idea of the Shura Principle, which states that what the majority of
people believe to be true IS true. <br>
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"His compromise with Muslim theology did not find favor in orthodox
circles and his philosophical works were burned in Baghdad. He
explained the moving, changing and developing state of nature. His
philosophy is the necessary link between the philosophy of Farabi and
Ghazali on one hand and that of Ibn Rushd (Averroes) on the other." <a
href="http://www.islamtomorrow.com/articles/philosophy_or_islam.html"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.islamtomorrow.com/articles/ph...</a>
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<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02157a.htm"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02157a.h...</a>
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http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/muslim/sina.html
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