Sadra and Hegel on Metaphysical Essentialism

Dedication
Contents
Introduction
1 Sadra on the Metaphysical Essentialism of Plato and Aristotle: The Unfolding of Existence
	1. The Question of Existence
	2. Individuation as a Mode of Existence: Sadra’s Critique of Plato and Aristotle
	3. Sadra’s Triple Metaphysical View of Existence
	4. The Substantial Motion of Existence (al-harakat al-jawhariyya)
	5. Sadra’s Metaphysical Problems: Transition to Hegel
2 Hegel on the Metaphysical Essentialism of Plato and Aristotle: The Unlocking of Essence
	1. Entrance
	2. Hegel’s Discovery of the Speculative Plato
	3. The Three Moments in Hegel’s Platonic Dialectic
	4. The Hegelian Transition to Aristotle
	5. Hegel’s Speculative Aristotle
	6. The Three Dialectical Moments of the Aristotelian Idea
		6.1. The First Moment: The Sensuous Perceptible Substance or the Immediate Moment of Objectivity
		6.2. The Second Moment: The Moment of Abstract Subjectivity or the Human Understanding
		6.3. The Third Moment: The Divine Thought or the Absolutely Differentiated Idea – the Speculative Subject
3 Sadra and Hegel on the Metaphysical Essentialism of Arabic Philosophy
	1. Hegel’s Critique of Arabic Philosophy
	2. Hegel’s Critique of the Speakers
	3. Hegel’s Logical Critique of Causation
	4. Essence’s Issuing from Being
	5. Essence’s Emerging into Existence
	6. Sadra’s Critique of the Speakers
	7. Sadra’s Critique of Avicenna: From Essential Contingency to Existential Contingency
	8. Sadra’s and Hegel’s Critiques of the Formal Logic of Arabic Philosophy
4 Hegel’s Critique of Two Views of One-Sided Essence, That of Aristotle and That of Sadra
	1. Hegel’s Self-Construing Method
	2. The Three Logical Moments of Determinate Being
	3. The Aristotelian Account of the Positive Objectivity of Essence as Qualitative Determinate Being
	4. Hegel’s Critique of the One-Sided Affirmative, Qualitative Account of Essence
	5. The Overcoming of the Two Sides Views of Essence as Quality: That of Aristotle and That of Sadra
Conclusion
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