Governance of the body
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
siyāsah · siyāsat badanihā · tadbīr · الحافظة والمبقية للبدن · تدبير · سياسة · سياسة بدنها
spoken of as
1 expressionThe governance of the body1 mention
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah (Arabic)
be awake to the governance of itself, and examine (1) the states of the members of its body, and prevent them from completing (2) their bodily acts.
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Siyāsah, the soul's political rule over its body and faculties, which yields the two wisdoms when well exercised and destruction when neglected.
be awake to the governance of itself, and examine (1) the states of the members of its body, and prevent them from completing (2) their bodily acts.
And just as the king, when he governs his subjects well so that want and weakness may not overtake them and render them unable to pay him his dues and fulfil their obligation to him — so likewise the soul, by governing its body, attains through it [32] the acquisition of the two wisdoms, I mean the theoretical and the practical.
but if he does not do so, they conspire together against him, seize his lands, burn his subjects (3) and kill him.
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
Tadbīr, the soul's governing of the body, concretely specified as preserving and maintaining it by supplying nourishment to replace what dissolves; because the body depends on this, it cannot in turn condition the soul's subsistence.
because the soul is what preserves and maintains the body and its temperament, by its governance and by the bringing of nourishment to it in place of what dissolves away from it.
(“Rather it is a substance subsisting by its own essence, separate from body and matter, attached to the body with an attachment of governance over it and of disposal from it, so as to use it as a craftsman uses his instruments;
And the existence of the bodily temperament (*mizāj*) is only a condition of the soul's emanating from its Originator, so that it may govern the body — on the doctrine of “Aristotle” — and of its attachment to it, if it was existent before the body, and that is on the doctrine of “Plato.