Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from Persian.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Mahdi Ha'iri Yazdi: A Philosophical Life -- 2. John Cooper: Oxford, Qum, and Cambridge -- 3. Translation -- 4. 'Ilm-i kulli: Historical Context and Content -- Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1. Definition of Metaphysics -- 2. Central Subject-Matter of Metaphysics -- 3. Divisions of Philosophy -- 4. Metaphysics in the General Sense -- 2. Existence (wujud) -- Being (hasti) -- 1. Meaning of Existence -- 2. That Which Makes Existence Known is Neither a Real Definition Nor a Descriptive Definition -- 3. Which is Fundamentally Real: Existence or Quiddity? -- 4. Definition of Quiddity -- 5. Arguments for the Fundamentality of Existence -- 6. Concept of Existence -- 7. Reality of Existence -- 8. Existence is in Addition to Quiddity -- 9. Truth (God, the Exalted) is Pure Existence -- 10. Mental Existence (or Existence in the Mind) -- 3. Mental Existence -- 1. Enigma of Mental Existence -- 2. Solution to the Enigma -- 3. View of Sadr al-Din Shirazi -- 4. Unity of the Intellector and That Which is Intellected -- 4. Further Issues Relating to Existence -- 1. Existence is Absolute Good -- 2. Existence is a Singularly Unique Reality -- 3. Existence is Not Substance and is Not Accident -- 4. Existence is Not Compound -- 5. Absolute Existence and Determined Existence -- 6. Secondary Intelligible -- 7. Non-Existent is Not Anything -- 8. There is No Differentiation between Non-Existences, or Any Causal Relationship -- 9. Coming Back of What Has Become Non-Existent -- 10. History Does Not Repeat Itself -- 11. Making and Effecting -- 12. Three Modes of Existence -- 5. Contingency (imkan) -- 1. General Contingency -- 2. Specific Contingency -- 3. Most Specific Contingency -- 4. Future Contingency -- 5. Pre-Dispositional Contingency -- 6. Contingency of Occurrence -- 7. Contingency in the Sense of Likelihood -- 8. Indigent Contingency -- 9. Analogical Contingency -- 6. Priority and Posteriority -- 1. Coming-Into-Being and Eternity -- 2. Divisions of Priority and Posteriority -- 7. Unity, Multiplicity, and Predication -- 1. Unity and Multiplicity -- 2. Divisions of the One [That is to say an investigation into how many ways things are said to be òne'] -- 3. Predication -- 4. Division of Predication -- 5. Multiplicity, Alterity, and Opposition -- 8. Quiddity -- 1. Quiddity and Its Necessary Parts -- 2. Quiddity in Itself is Neither Existent Nor Non-Existent -- 3. Mental Conceptions of Quiddity -- 4. Natural Universal -- 5. Existence of the Natural Universal -- 9. Potentiality (quwwah) and Actuality (fi'l) -- 10. Cause ('illat) and Effect (ma'lul) -- 1. Causality -- 2. Divisions of the Efficient Cause -- 3. Final Cause -- 4. Premature Death -- 5. Formal Cause -- 6. Material Cause -- 7. Names for Matter -- 8. Divisions of Matter -- 9. Things in Common between all the Causes -- 10. Some of the Properties of the Bodily Causes -- 11. Things in Common between the Cause and the Effect -- 12. Discussion between Men of Wisdom -- 13. Vicious Circles and Infinite Regresses.

The Universal Science ( ʻIlm-i kullī ) by Mahdī Ḥāʼirī Yazdī , is a concise, but authoritative, outline of the fundamental discussions in Islamic metaphysics. For many years used as a textbook in Iran, this short text offers English readers a readily accessible, lucid, and yet deeply learned, guide through the Sadrian, Avicennan, and Illuminationist schools of thought, whilst also demonstrating how the 'living tradition' of Shīʻī philosophy engages with central ontological, epistemological, aetiological, and psychological questions. Discussions include the primacy of existence; the proper classifications of quiddity; and the manifold properties of causality and causal explanation. This is the first of the various influential works authored by this leading Shīʻah intellectual to have been translated into English from the original Persian.

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