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| PREFACE | vii |
| LIFE AND WORKS | ix |
| INTRODUCTION | |
| — | —: |
| CHARACTERS OF ALFARABI’S PHILOSOPHY | xiii |
| WHAT MUST PRECEDE THE STUDY OF PHILOSOPHY | xiv |
| DEFINITION AND DIVISION OF PHILOSOPHY | xvi |
PART ONE. LOGICAL
| CHAPTER I. LOGIC | |
|---|---|
| MENTAL OPERATIONS | 1 |
| CATEGORIES | 2 |
| CERTAIN QUESTIONS ON THE CATEGORIES | 3 |
PART TWO. THEORETICAL
| CHAPTER II. METAPHYSICS | |
|---|---|
| ONTOLOGY | 10 |
| Universals | 10 |
| Description of Being | 12 |
| Transcendental Properties of Being | 13 |
| Division of Being into Necessary and Contingent | 13 |
| Principles of Being, Potentiality and Actuality | 13 |
| The First Principles | 15 |
| METAPHYSICAL THEOLOGY | 18 |
| Knowability of God | 18 |
| Proofs of God’s Existence | 19 |
| Attributes of God | 22 |
| a) Process of Exclusion | 23 |
| Simplicity of God | 23 |
| Infinity of God | 25 |
| Immutability of God | 25 |
| Unity of God | 26 |
| b) Process of pre-Eminence | 27 |
| God is Intelligent | 27 |
| God Knows All Things through Knowledge of Himself | 28 [p. xii] |
| God is Truth | 28 |
| God is Life | 28 |
| METAPHYSICAL COSMOLOGY | 30 |
| Relation of God to the World | 30 |
| Eternity of Matter and Eternity of the World | 31 |
| Dualism of Good and Evil | 32 |
| METAPHYSICAL PSYCHOLOGY | 34 |
| The Soul Is a Being Quite Distinct from the Body | 34 |
| Spirituality of the Human Soul | 34 |
| Immortality of the Human Soul | 35 |
| CHAPTER III. PSYCHOLOGY | |
| — | —: |
| A GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE POWERS OF THE SOUL | 37 |
| 1. Powers of Knowledge | 38 |
| Sense-Knowledge | 38 |
| Perceptive Knowledge | 40 |
| Abstractive Knowledge | 41 |
| 2. Powers of Action | 45 |
| Sensitive Appetite | 45 |
| Intellective Appetite | 46 |
PART THREE. PRACTICAL
| CHAPTER IV. ETHICS | |
|---|---|
| ACTIONS GOOD, BAD, OR INDIFFERENT | 49 |
| CHAPTER V. POLITICAL SOCIETY | |
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| DESCRIPTION OF THE MODEL STATE | 50 |
| CONCLUDING CHAPTER | |
| — | —: |
| THREE CONCLUSIONS | 54 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 57 |
| INDEX | 59 |