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

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43037-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 426 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 762 g

Reihe: Investigating Medieval Philosophy

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 (wajib), 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.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

de Haan, Daniel D

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.