Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing

Daniel D. De Haan, Ph.D. (2015) University of St Thomas and KU Leuven, is a Research Fellow at Oxford University. He has published in The Journal of the History of Philosophy, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, The Thomist, Quaestio, Documenti e studi.

 Acknowledgements

 Abbreviations

 Primary Sources and Translations

 Works of Avicenna

 Other Primary Works

 Introduction: Avicenna’sMetaphysics of the Healing

 The Problematic

 An Outline of the Contents

 Summary



Part 1: The Logical Context of the Metaphysics of the Healing

 1Logic, Knowledge, and Questions

 1.1Avicenna’s Logic in Context

 1.2Knowledge by Conceptualization and Assent

 1.3The Heuristic Order of Questions

 Concluding Remarks

 2Conceptualization, Assent, and Scientific Knowledge

 2.1Primary and Acquired Knowledge by Conceptualization

 2.2Primary and Acquired Knowledge by Assent

 2.3Logic, Knowledge, and Demonstrative Science

 Concluding Remarks



Part 2: Scientific Order of the Metaphysics of the Healing

 3Subject & Goal of the Science of Metaphysics

 3.1Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing in Context

 3.2The Subject & Goal of a Scientific Metaphysics

 3.3The Objects of Enquiry of a Scientific Metaphysics

 Concluding Remarks

 4The Scientific First Principles of the Science of Metaphysics

 4.1Scientific First Principles and Interpretations ofssIlahiyyatsssI.5–8

 4.2Conceptualization, Assent, and the Textual Division ofIlahiyyatI.5–8

 4.3The Goal ofIlahiyyatI.5–8

 Concluding Remarks



Part 3: Scientific Principles and the Senses of Being

 5The Four Senses of Being and the Scientific Principles of Metaphysics: A Formal Approach

 5.1The Four Senses of Being in Aristotle, al-Farabi, & Avicenna

 5.2Avicenna’s Integration of the Four Senses of Being and the Scientific Principles

 Concluding Remarks

 6The Four Senses of Being and the Scientific Principles of Metaphysics: A Material Approach to the Principles of Conceptualization

 6.1Primary Notions

 6.2A Comparison of the Primary Notions

 Concluding Remarks

 7The Four Senses of Being and the Scientific Principles of Metaphysics: A Material Approach to the Principles of Assent

 7.1Primary Hypotheses

 7.2Primary Axioms

 Concluding Remarks

 8Beingper se & Beingper accidens: On the Analogy & Accidentality of Existence

 8.1Beingper se & the Analogy of Existence

 8.2Beingper accidens & the Accidentality of Existence

 Concluding Remarkss



Part 4: Basic & Fundamental Principles in the

 9The Basic Primary Notions in Avicenna’s Metaphysics

 9.1The Primary Notions as Prior to their Opposites

 9.2Primary Notions: Subordination by Intensional Priority

 9.3The Intensional Subordination of One(wa?id)

 9.4The Intensional Subordination of Thing(šay?)to Being(mawjud)

 Concluding Remarks

 10The Fundamental Primary Notion in Avicenna’s Metaphysics

 10.1The Necessary as the Fundamental Primary Notion in Ontology

 10.2The Necessary as the Fundamental Primary Notion in Aitiology

 10.3The Necessary as the Fundamental Primary Notion in Theology

 Concluding Remarks

 Conclusion

 Bibliography

 Primary Sources and Translations

 Secondary Sources

 Index