Contents
CONTENTS
| PREFACE | |
| LIFE AND WORKS | |
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| CHARACTERS OF ALFARABI'S PHILOSOPHY | |
| WHAT MUST PRECEDE THE STUDY OF PHILOSOPHY | |
| DEFINITION AND DIVISION OF PHILOSOPHY | |
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| MENTAL OPERATIONS | |
| CATEGORIES | |
| CERTAIN QUESTIONS ON THE CATEGORIES | |
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| ONTOLOGY | |
| Universals | |
| Description of Being | |
| Transcendental Properties of Being | |
| Division of Being into Necessary and Contingent | |
| Principles of Being, Potentiality and Actuality | |
| The First Principles | |
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| Knowability of God | |
| Proofs of God's Existence | |
| Attributes of God | |
| a) Process of Exclusion 23 |
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| Simplicity of God | |
| Infinity of God | |
| Immutability of God | |
| Unity of God | |
| b) Process of pre-Eminence | |
| God is Intelligent | |
| God Knows All Things through Knowledge of Himself | |
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| God is Truth | |
| God is Life | |
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| Relation of God to the World | |
| Eternity of Matter and Eternity of the World | |
| Dualism of Good and Evil | |
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| The Soul Is a Being Quite Distinct from the Body | |
| Spirituality of the Human Soul | |
| Immortality of the Human Soul | |
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| 1. Powers of Knowledge | |
| Sense-Knowledge | |
| Perceptive Knowledge | |
| Abstractive Knowledge | |
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| Sensitive Appetite | |
| Intellective Appetite | |
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| ACTIONS GOOD, BAD, OR INDIFFERENT | |
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| DESCRIPTION OF THE MODEL STATE | |
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| THREE CONCLUSIONS | |
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| INDEX |