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Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics.
The Universal Science ( ʻIlm-i kullī ) by Mahdī Ḥāʼirī Yazdī , is a concise, but authoritative, outline of the fundamental discussions in Islamic metaphysics. For many years used as a textbook in Iran, this short text offers English readers a readily accessible, lucid, and yet deeply learned,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Persian |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Brill Academic Publishers : Brill,
2017.
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| Colección: | Modern Shīʻah library ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Machine generated contents note: 1. Mahdi Ha'iri Yazdi: A Philosophical Life
- 2. John Cooper: Oxford, Qum, and Cambridge
- 3. Translation
- 4. 'Ilm-i kulli: Historical Context and Content
- Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 1. Definition of Metaphysics
- 2. Central Subject-Matter of Metaphysics
- 3. Divisions of Philosophy
- 4. Metaphysics in the General Sense
- 2. Existence (wujud)
- Being (hasti)
- 1. Meaning of Existence
- 2. That Which Makes Existence Known is Neither a Real Definition Nor a Descriptive Definition
- 3. Which is Fundamentally Real: Existence or Quiddity?
- 4. Definition of Quiddity
- 5. Arguments for the Fundamentality of Existence
- 6. Concept of Existence
- 7. Reality of Existence
- 8. Existence is in Addition to Quiddity
- 9. Truth (God, the Exalted) is Pure Existence
- 10. Mental Existence (or Existence in the Mind)
- 3. Mental Existence
- 1. Enigma of Mental Existence
- 2. Solution to the Enigma
- 3. View of Sadr al-Din Shirazi
- 4. Unity of the Intellector and That Which is Intellected
- 4. Further Issues Relating to Existence
- 1. Existence is Absolute Good
- 2. Existence is a Singularly Unique Reality
- 3. Existence is Not Substance and is Not Accident
- 4. Existence is Not Compound
- 5. Absolute Existence and Determined Existence
- 6. Secondary Intelligible
- 7. Non-Existent is Not Anything
- 8. There is No Differentiation between Non-Existences, or Any Causal Relationship
- 9. Coming Back of What Has Become Non-Existent
- 10. History Does Not Repeat Itself
- 11. Making and Effecting
- 12. Three Modes of Existence
- 5. Contingency (imkan)
- 1. General Contingency
- 2. Specific Contingency
- 3. Most Specific Contingency
- 4. Future Contingency
- 5. Pre-Dispositional Contingency
- 6. Contingency of Occurrence
- 7. Contingency in the Sense of Likelihood
- 8. Indigent Contingency
- 9. Analogical Contingency
- 6. Priority and Posteriority
- 1. Coming-Into-Being and Eternity
- 2. Divisions of Priority and Posteriority
- 7. Unity, Multiplicity, and Predication
- 1. Unity and Multiplicity
- 2. Divisions of the One [That is to say an investigation into how many ways things are said to be òne']
- 3. Predication
- 4. Division of Predication
- 5. Multiplicity, Alterity, and Opposition
- 8. Quiddity
- 1. Quiddity and Its Necessary Parts
- 2. Quiddity in Itself is Neither Existent Nor Non-Existent
- 3. Mental Conceptions of Quiddity
- 4. Natural Universal
- 5. Existence of the Natural Universal
- 9. Potentiality (quwwah) and Actuality (fi'l)
- 10. Cause ('illat) and Effect (ma'lul)
- 1. Causality
- 2. Divisions of the Efficient Cause
- 3. Final Cause
- 4. Premature Death
- 5. Formal Cause
- 6. Material Cause
- 7. Names for Matter
- 8. Divisions of Matter
- 9. Things in Common between all the Causes
- 10. Some of the Properties of the Bodily Causes
- 11. Things in Common between the Cause and the Effect
- 12. Discussion between Men of Wisdom
- 13. Vicious Circles and Infinite Regresses.