Necessary existence and the doctrine of being in Avicenna's Metaphysics of the healing / / Daniel D. De Haan.

• Superior document: Investigating Medieval Philosophy ; Volume 15
• VerfasserIn: De Haan, Daniel D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Investigating medieval philosophy ; Volume 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing Daniel De Haan explicates the central argument of Avicenna’s metaphysical masterpiece. De Haan argues that the most fundamental primary notion in Avicenna’s metaphysics is neither being nor thing but is the necessary ( wājib ), which Avicenna employs to demonstrate the existence and true-nature of the divine necessary existence in itself. This conclusion is established through a systematic investigation of how Avicenna’s theory of a demonstrative science is employed in the organization of his metaphysical science into its subject, first principles, and objects of enquiry. The book examines the essential role the first principles as primary notions and primary hypotheses play in the central argument of Avicenna’s metaphysics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Primary Sources and Translations -- Works of Avicenna -- Other Primary Works -- Introduction: Avicenna’s Metaphysics 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 ofss Ilahiyyat sss I.5–8 -- 4.2Conceptualization, Assent, and the Textual Division of Ilahiyyat I.5–8 -- 4.3The Goal of Ilahiyyat I.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 -- 8Being per se & Being per accidens : On the Analogy & Accidentality of Existence -- 8.1Being per se & the Analogy of Existence -- 8.2Being per 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.