{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/palf/palf04.htm","path":"isl/palf/palf04.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/palf/palf04.htm","text":"| PREFACE | vii | \n| LIFE AND WORKS | ix | \n| INTRODUCTION | | \n| CHARACTERS OF ALFARABI'S PHILOSOPHY | xiii | \n| WHAT MUST PRECEDE THE STUDY OF PHILOSOPHY | xiv | \n| DEFINITION AND DIVISION OF PHILOSOPHY | xvi | \n| PART ONE. LOGICAL | | \n| CHAPTER I. LOGIC | | \n| MENTAL OPERATIONS | 1 | \n| CATEGORIES | 2 | \n| CERTAIN QUESTIONS ON THE CATEGORIES | 3 | \n| PART TWO. THEORETICAL | | \n| CHAPTER II. METAPHYSICS | | \n| ONTOLOGY | 10 | \n| Universals | 10 | \n| Description of Being | 12 | \n| Transcendental Properties of Being | 13 | \n| Division of Being into Necessary and Contingent | 13 | \n| Principles of Being, Potentiality and Actuality | 13 | \n| The First Principles | 15 | \n| METAPHYSICAL THEOLOGY | 18 | \n| Knowability of God | 18 | \n| Proofs of God's Existence | 19 | \n| Attributes of God | 22 | \n| a) Process of Exclusion 23 | | \n| Simplicity of God | 23 | \n| Infinity of God | 25 | \n| Immutability of God | 25 | \n| Unity of God | 26 | \n| b) Process of pre-Eminence | 27 | \n| God is Intelligent | 27 | \n| God Knows All Things through Knowledge of Himself | 28 | \n| p. xii | | \n| God is Truth | 28 | \n| God is Life | 28 | \n| METAPHYSICAL COSMOLOGY | 30 | \n| Relation of God to the World | 30 | \n| Eternity of Matter and Eternity of the World | 31 | \n| Dualism of Good and Evil | 32 | \n| METAPHYSICAL PSYCHOLOGY | 34 | \n| The Soul Is a Being Quite Distinct from the Body | 34 | \n| Spirituality of the Human Soul | 34 | \n| Immortality of the Human Soul | 35 | \n| CHAPTER III. PSYCHOLOGY | | \n| A GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE POWERS OF THE SOUL | 37 | \n| 1. Powers of Knowledge | 38 | \n| Sense-Knowledge | 38 | \n| Perceptive Knowledge | 40 | \n| Abstractive Knowledge | 41 | \n| 2. Powers of Action | 45 | \n| Sensitive Appetite | 45 | \n| Intellective Appetite | 46 | \n| PART THREE. PRACTICAL | | \n| CHAPTER IV. ETHICS | | \n| ACTIONS GOOD, BAD, OR INDIFFERENT | 49 | \n| CHAPTER V. POLITICAL SOCIETY | | \n| DESCRIPTION OF THE MODEL STATE | 50 | \n| CONCLUDING CHAPTER | | \n| THREE CONCLUSIONS | 54 | \n| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 57 | \n| INDEX | 59 |","title":"Philosophy of Alfarabi: Contents","type":"page"}