Outline
1. Metaphysics
a.
Its subject: Aristotelian Dilemma:
Being qua being or first causes?
i.
Avicenna: let the subject
be: being qua being and its immediate properties like: unity/plurality; cause
or effect;
1.
This way we’ll have all the
necessary topics and goals we expect from Metaphysics covered, and
2.
We also discuss about “first
cause” when we discuss certain divisions of being qua being, like the necessary
being, or the eternal being
b.
Its goal and benefit:
determination of the realities of all things, inasmuch as that is possible for
a human being.
1.
True knowledge (what, if it
exists and why does it exist)
2.
Comprehensive knowledge (of
everything) so that man turns to little cosmos corresponding to the greater
cosmos
ii.
Foundations of other
sciences
iii.
Theology
iv.
Angiology
v.
Mechanics (motion of heavenly
bodies)
c.
Its methodology
i.
Avicennian innovation in
methodology: thought experiment
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