A Study and Analysis of Self in Islamic philosophy

The state of definition of self is based on the philosopher’s principles of Self-knowledge and his philosophic system. This principle is fundamental in the explaining of essence and interpretation of Self. The plurality of principles is due to the disagreement in the definition and explaining the objects. In this paper three famous definition of the Self in Islamic Philosophy is mentioned. Each of these definitions views the Self from different angles and discussed a specific point of it. The most of the Islamic philosophers have accepted the famous definition of self (the first perfection of the natural organic object) which by adding an adverbial allocates to human being. This definition, aside from principles is insufficient, is incompatible with the findings of prominent scholars. The second definition is the Avicenna’s definition which defines Self in general term. The third definition is the common definition in Islamic Philosophy. In this article each of the definitions are mentioned and the level of their efficiency is investigated.