A Study on the Role of Conception and Assent in Forming Two Kinds of Moral Worlds in Avicenna's Philosophy

According to Avicenna's philosophy, it is the type of our conceptions that leads to the assent of the nature of the world in the way we understand it. Avicenna states two types of conceptions: those whose source is the cognition of the intelligible, and those whose source is all the levels of human's cognition other than the intellectual faculty. These two types of conception pave the way for the construction of two types of worlds: rational and imaginative. Man acts in the world based on his cognition of it. The action based on rational cognition of the world is rational and forms a moral world for us. But the action based on irrational cognition of the world forms an immoral world for Avicenna's audience. This article seeks to clarify how these two moral and immoral worlds are formed in front of Avicenna's audiences and show that their formation depends on their cognition of the world. The development of various imaginations in mind and how they are formed are different in different people due to their level of cognition. This leads to the formation of two types of the moral and immoral world in different people.