Love in Ibn Sînâ and Will in Schopenhauer: An ontological research

According to Avicenna, Love is bestowed by necessary being to living and inanimate creatures to save their existence, at the same time it is the exact concept of being. Love is warrantor of being and manifestation of Love is the identic to the being. Assuming Love as a moving force, Avicenna defines it as ontological, epistemological, cosmogonic, and psychologic formulations, aiming to illustrate dependence from God as absolute goodness. Within this aim, Avicenna, beginning from inanimate being until divine essence, highlight that despite its different appearances Love is universal. On the other hand, according to Schopenhauer, will as the essential reality, providing and eliciting concept of life. Schopenhauer underlines will as substantive knowledge of existence of man. Will is the a priori knowledge of body and body is the a posteriori knowledge of will. Thus, man is the manifestation of will and at the same time all the fulfilment of will is the fulfilment of body. Will, as a whole displaying itself as an active strength in nature. Realizing unbound to causality principle, will is the source of being and the fundamental principle of existence according to Schopenhauer and it is unchanging and preserve its unity.