University of Tehran Press Journal for the History of Science 1735-0573 22 1 2024 08 22 A Reflection on the Concept of Place from the Perspective of Ibn Bājja (Avempace) and an Examination of the Influence of Plato and Aristotle on It A Reflection on the Concept of Place from the Perspective of Ibn Bājja (Avempace) and an Examination of the Influence of Plato and Aristotle on It 69 86 99154 10.22059/jihs.2024.380786.371799 FA Faeze Eskandari Department of Information Science and Epistemology. Faculty of Management and Economics. Tarbiat Modares University. Tehran. Iran 0009-0001-8390-9222 Journal Article 2024 08 12 One of the topics of interest in philosophy, particularly in physics, is the discussion of the concept of place, its essence, and its characteristics. Throughout history, there have always been two interpretations of place. These two perspectives, one attributed to Plato and the other to Aristotle, have gone through various ups and downs. This article aims to utilize an analytical-descriptive method, relying on document-based information gathering from texts attributed to the treatises and viewpoints of natural philosophers, primarily Plato, Aristotle, and Ibn Bājja (Avempace), to demonstrate the influence of Plato's and Aristotle's ideas on Ibn Bājjah's conception of the essence and characteristics of place. Plato considers place to be an abstract concept, while Aristotle introduces it as the external surface of a body or the internal surface of the body in which the object is situated. In this context, Ibn Bājja chooses a synthesis of these two thoughts in his book. He perceives the concept of place as abstracted from the movement of objects in the external world and defines it as the external surface of a moving body One of the topics of interest in philosophy, particularly in physics, is the discussion of the concept of place, its essence, and its characteristics. Throughout history, there have always been two interpretations of place. These two perspectives, one attributed to Plato and the other to Aristotle, have gone through various ups and downs. This article aims to utilize an analytical-descriptive method, relying on document-based information gathering from texts attributed to the treatises and viewpoints of natural philosophers, primarily Plato, Aristotle, and Ibn Bājja (Avempace), to demonstrate the influence of Plato's and Aristotle's ideas on Ibn Bājjah's conception of the essence and characteristics of place. Plato considers place to be an abstract concept, while Aristotle introduces it as the external surface of a body or the internal surface of the body in which the object is situated. In this context, Ibn Bājja chooses a synthesis of these two thoughts in his book. He perceives the concept of place as abstracted from the movement of objects in the external world and defines it as the external surface of a moving body https://jihs.ut.ac.ir/article_99154_436f51d058881a91bd0c2018fa3b1f6a.pdf