Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context

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Journal of the American Oriental Society 124 (2):392 (2004)
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Introduction

1. Aristotle: Perfection in the Definitions of the Soul and of Change

2. Alexander and Themistius: Attempts at Reconciliation

3. Proclus, Ammonius and Asclepius: The Neoplatonic Turn to Causation

4. Proclus, Ammonius and Philoponus: Neoplatonic Perfection and Aristotelian Soul

5. Greek into Arabic: The Greco-Arabic Translations and the Early Arabic Philosophers

6. Avicenna on Perfection and the Soul: The Issue of Separability

7. Essence and Existence : Materials from the Kalām and al-Fārābī

8. Essence and Existence : Shay'iyya or Sababiyya?

9. Essence and Existence : The Question of Evolution

10. Causal Self-Sufficiency vs. Causal Productivity

11. Necessity and Possibility : Materials from the Arabic Aristotle

12. Necessity and Possibility : Materials from al-Fārābī

13. Necessity and Possibility : Materials from the Kalām

14. Necessity and Possibility : The Question of Evolution

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Appendix I: Tables of Greco-Arabic Translation

Appendix II: Transcriptions of Lemmata from MS Uppsala Or. 364

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Index of Lemmata

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7. Essence and Existence (A): Materials from the Kalām and al-Fārābī

8. Essence and Existence (B): Shay'iyya or Sababiyya?

9. Essence and Existence (C): The Question of Evolution

11. Necessity and Possibility (A): Materials from the Arabic Aristotle

12. Necessity and Possibility (B): Materials from al-Fārābī

13. Necessity and Possibility (C): Materials from the Kalām

14. Necessity and Possibility (D): The Question of Evolution

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