Avicenna and the Secret of Being

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Explore how Ibn Sina became both a legendary physician and a towering philosopher, shaping medicine, logic, and metaphysics across the Islamic world and medieval Europe. The episode unpacks his distinction between essence and existence, his argument for the Necessary Existent, and why thinkers from Aquinas to Maimonides could not ignore him.

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