The Correlation of Love and Knowledge in Human Beings based on the Views of Plotinus and Ibn Sina

In this research, based on the views of Plotinus and Ibn Sina about The correlation of love and knowledge in human, their views are examined and analysis these differences and similarities. In The correlation of love and knowledge in human discussed the effect of love for the desire for knowledge for the attainment of goodness and beauty, the attainment of moral properties, and the union with the general forms and God is considered. The most important issue of the research was to test the hypothesis whether Ibn Sina in the foundations and the correlation of love and knowledge in human was influenced by Plotinus's philosophical foundations while discussing the love of knowledge? Relying on a descriptive analytical method, this article finally concludes that in the epistemological view received from Plotinus's views on love, love is the opposite of the path of knowledge, the path to achievement and union with one. Love is able to achieve something that has no limits and no form. But this view is ontological for Ibn Sina because the perfection of the human`s souls is the same as the essence of absolute goodness and the issuance of moderate actions such as human virtues and stimulating the heavenly souls towards the heavenly substances which are due to the likeness of absolute good and the end of this similarity. It is an approximation of absolute goodness through virtue of perfection and virtue. In addition to being influenced by religious views, Ibn Sina was also influenced by Plotinus and directed the flow of Islamic thought towards illumination and mysticism.