The common sense
idea · 2 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
al-ḥiss al-mushtarak · الحس المشترك · the common sense · lawḥ al-ḥiss al-mushtarak · المشترك · لوح الحس المشترك
spoken of as
1 expressional-ḥiss al-mushtarak“the common sense”1 mention
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq (Arabic)
So when a man dies, the breath-soul has another genesis, and the effusion of the divine spirit brings to be in it a power, in what remains of the common sense (al-ḥiss al-mushtarak), sufficient to do the office of hearing, sight and speech, by a number from the world of images (ʻālam al-mithāl), in place of the faculty intermediate between the immaterial and the sensible that is diffused through t …
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The internal faculty of the first cerebral ventricle that receives the forms of the sensibles, requiring a moist mixture with some dryness so that impressions are taken easily and not lost at once.
for the front part is a cavity, so that if the front part is obstructed, harm accrues to the common sense;
the first, in which is the common sense (*al-ḥiss al-mushtarak*);
and there the forms pass over from the common (1) to the cogitative.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The common sense, the internal faculty whose remnant sustains post-mortem perception.
So when a man dies, the breath-soul has another genesis, and the effusion of the divine spirit brings to be in it a power, in what remains of the common sense (al-ḥiss al-mushtarak), sufficient to do the office of hearing, sight and speech, by a number from the world of images (ʻālam al-mithāl), in place of the faculty intermediate between the immaterial and the sensible that is diffused through t …