SPIRITUAL MEDICINE OF ABU BAKRA AR-RAZI: PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECT
Journal Title: Вісник Львівського університету - Year 2017, Vol 12, Issue
Abstract
The relevance of studying of the phenomenon of spiritual medicine is due to the need for its philosophical comprehension. Based on the ancient heritage, Islamic theology, the ideas of Zoroastrianism, Gnosticism and Manichaeism, Muslim philosophers of the Middle Ages developed their own original philosophical vision of the world a of person, where the doctrine of mind, knowledge and soul occupied an important place. Abu Bakr Ar-Razi became an innovator of holistic and spiritual medicine, a convinced promoter of body recovering process on the whole. The Islamic scientist set himself the task to find and to establish the principles of balancing all the functions of the body at the expense of a person's recovery on physical, emotional and spiritual levels. One of Ar-Razi’s most important ideas is to establish a connection between physics and ethics. The scientist believed that there is an interrelated correlation between them. For Ar-Razi, ethics is a science about the ways and means of virtue, upbringing the subordination subjugating mental strength to mind. The scientist was convinced that the moral improvement of man and society was a guarantee of the physical health of a person and the spiritual progress of all mankind.
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Рахім Амір Хуссейн
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