Outline
1. Ontological separation between Essence and Existence
a.
Introduction
i.
Aristotelian dichotomies
between:
1.
Form and Matter
2.
Essence and Accidents
To explain the motion; Aristotle first cause is responsible
for motion, not existence
Plato’s Demiurge is just a form giver, not existence
giver
ii.
Muslim philosophers had to explain
the existence, not motion (creation)
b.
Avicenna’s arguments for
the ontological separation between existence/being and essence/quiddity
c.
The ramifications of such a
separation
d.
Distinction between
Contingent being and Necessary being
e.
Seeds of Hierarchy and
gradation of Existence
f.
The core of requiring a cause:
temporality or contingency?
g.
Causality (the core of
causality; the Principle of al-Wahid)
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