The Metaphysics Of The Healing

Cover
Title Page
Contents
Foreword to the Series
Acknowledgments
Note on Conventions
Translator\'s Introduction
Key to the Arabic Notes
The Metaphysics of The Healing
Book One
	Chapter 1: On beginning to seek the subject of first philosophy so that its individual quiddity among the sciences becomes evident
	Chapter 2: On attaining the subject matter of this science
	Chapter 3: On the benefit of this science, the order in which it is studied, and its name
	Chapter 4: On the totality of matters discussed in this science
	Chapter 5: On indicating the existent, the thing, and their first division, wherewith attention is directed to the objective thought
	Chapter 6: On commencing a discourse on the Necessary Existent and the possible existent; that the Necessary Existent has no cause; that the possible existent is caused; that the Necessary Existent has no equivalent in existence and is not dependent in existence on another
	Chapter 7: That the Necessary Existent is one
	Chapter 8: On clarifying the meaning of \"truth\" and \"veracity\"; defense of the primary statements in true premises
Book Two
	Chapter 1: On making known substance and its divisions in a universal way
	Chapter 2: On ascertaining corporeal substance and what is composed from it
	Chapter 3: That corporeal matter is not devoid of form
	Chapter 4: On placing form prior to matter in the rank of existence
Book Three
	Chapter 1: On indicating what ought to be investigated regarding the state of the nine categories and about their accidental nature
	Chapter 2: On discussing the one
	Chapter 3: On ascertaining the one and the many and showing that number is an accident
	Chapter 4: The measures are accidents
	Chapter 5: On ascertaining the nature of number, defining its species, and showing its beginnings
	Chapter 6: On the opposition of the one and the many
	Chapter 7: That qualities are accidents
	Chapter 8: On knowledge, that it is an accident
	Chapter 9: On qualities that are in quantities; proof of their existence
	Chapter 10: On the relative
Book Four
	Chapter 1: On the prior and the posterior, and on origination
	Chapter 2: On potency, act, power, and impotence, and on proving the existence of matter for every generated thing
	Chapter 3: On the complete, the incomplete, and what is above completion; on the whole and on the total
Book Five
	Chapter 1: On general things and the manner of their existence
	Chapter 2: On the manner in which universality comes to belong to universal natures; completing the discussion of this topic; and on the difference between the whole and the part, the universal and the particular
	Chapter 3: On differentiating between genus and matter
	Chapter 4: On the manner in which ideas extraneous to genus enter its nature
	Chapter 5: On the species
	Chapter 6: On making differentia known and ascertaining its nature
	Chapter 7: On making known the proper relationship between definition and the thing defined
	Chapter 8: On definition
	Chapter 9: On the appropriate relation between definition and its parts
Book Six
	Chapter 1: On the division of causes and their states
	Chapter 2: On resolving doubts directed against what the adherents of true doctrine hold, to the effect that every cause coexists with its effect; and on ascertaining the true statements about the efficient cause
	Chapter 3: On the compatibility between the efficient causes and their effects
	Chapter 4: Concerning the other causes — the elemental, the formal, and the final
	Chapter 5: On establishing the purpose and resolving skeptical doubts uttered in refuting it; the difference between purpose and necessity; making known the manner in which purpose is prior to the rest of the causes and the manner in which it is posterior
Book Seven
	Chapter 1: On the appendages of unity by way of haecceity and its divisions; the appendages of multiplicity by way of otherness, difference, and the well-known kinds of opposition
	Chapter 2: On relating the doctrine of the ancient philosophers regarding the exemplars and principles of mathematics and the reason calling for this; revealing the origin of the ignorance that befell them, by reason of which they deviated from the truth
	Chapter 3: On refuting the doctrine of the separate entities of mathematical objects and exemplars
Book Eight
	Chapter 1: On the finitude of the efficient and the receptive causes
	Chapter 2: Concerning doubts adhering to what has been said, and the resolution thereof
	Chapter 3: On showing the finitude of the final and formal causes; on proving the existence of the first principle in an absolute manner; on making decisive the statement on the first cause absolutely and on the first cause restrictedly, showing that what is absolutely a first cause is a cause for the rest of the causes
	Chapter 4: On the primary attributes of the principle that is necessary in its existence
	Chapter 5: As though a confirmation and a recapitulation of what has been previously discussed concerning the unity of the Necessary Existent and all His attributes, by way of conclusion
	Chapter 6: That He is perfect — indeed, above perfection — good, bestower of existence on everything after Him; that He is truth and pure intellect; that He apprehends intellectually all things, and the manner of this; how He knows Himself; how He knows universals; how He knows particulars, and the manner in which it is not permitted to say that He apprehends them
	Chapter 7: On the relation of the intelligibles to Him; on making it clear that His positive and negative attributes do not necessitate multiplicity in His essence; that to Him belongs supreme splendor, the loftiest majesty, and infinite glory; on explaining in detail the state of intellectual pleasure
Book Nine
	Chapter 1: On the attribute of the efficacy of the First Principle
	Chapter 2: That the proximate mover of the heavens is neither a nature nor an intellect but a soul, and that the remote principle is an intellect
	Chapter 3: On the manner in which acts proceed from the lofty principles so that, from this, one would know what one ought to know concerning the separate movers that are intellectually apprehended in themselves and are loved
	Chapter 4: On the ordering of the existence of the intellect, celestial souls, and celestial bodies that proceed from the First Principle
	Chapter 5: On the state of the generation of the elements by the first causes
	Chapter 6: On providence, showing the manner of the entry of evil in divine predestination
	Chapter 7: Concerning \"the return\", the hereafter
Book Ten
	Chapter 1: A Brief statement on the beginning and \"the return\"; on inspirations, dreams, and prayers that are answered, and celestial punishments; on the state of prophecy and of astrological predictions
	Chapter 2: On the proof of prophecy; the manner of the Prophet\'s call to God, exalted be He; and the \"return\" to Him
	Chapter 3: On acts of worship: their benefits in this world and the next
	Chapter 4: On establishing the city, the household — that is, marriage — and the universal laws pertaining to these matters
	Chapter 5: Concerning the caliph and the imam: the necessity of obeying them; remarks on politics, transactions, and morals
Notes to the English Text
	Translator\'s Introduction
	Book One, Chapter 1
	Book One, Chapter 2
	Book One, Chapter 3
	Book One, Chapter 4
	Book One, Chapter 5
	Book One, Chapter 6
	Book One, Chapter 7
	Book One, Chapter 8
	Book Two, Chapter 1
	Book Two, Chapter 2
	Book Two, Chapter 3
	Book Two, Chapter 4
	Book Three, Chapter 1
	Book Three, Chapter 2
	Book Three, Chapter 3
	Book Three, Chapter 4
	Book Three, Chapter 5
	Book Three, Chapter 6
	Book Three, Chapter 7
	Book Three, Chapter 8
	Book Three, Chapter 9
	Book Three, Chapter 10
	Book Four, Chapter 1
	Book Four, Chapter 2
	Book Four, Chapter 3
	Book Five, Chapter 1
	Book Five, Chapter 2
	Book Five, Chapter 3
	Book Five, Chapter 4
	Book Five, Chapter 6
	Book Five, Chapter 7
	Book Five, Chapter 8
	Book Five, Chapter 9
	Book Six, Chapter 1
	Book Six, Chapter 2
	Book Six, Chapter 3
	Book Six, Chapter 4
	Book Six, Chapter 5
	Book Seven, Chapter 1
	Book Seven, Chapter 2
	Book Seven, Chapter 3
	Book Eight, Chapter 1
	Book Eight, Chapter 2
	Book Eight, Chapter 3
	Book Eight, Chapter 4
	Book Eight, Chapter 5
	Book Eight, Chapter 6
	Book Eight, Chapter 7
	Book Nine, Chapter 1
	Book Nine, Chapter 2
	Book Nine, Chapter 3
	Book Nine, Chapter 4
	Book Nine, Chapter 5
	Book Nine, Chapter 6
	Book Nine, Chapter 7
	Book Ten, Chapter 1
	Book Ten, Chapter 2
	Book Ten, Chapter 3
	Book Ten, Chapter 4
	Book Ten, Chapter 5
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