Ibn Sina's Remarks and Admonitions by Inati, Shams C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Analysis of the Text Part Two: Physics

Prologue First Class: On the Substance of Bodies

1. Delusion and Remark: On the Composition of Bodies 2. Delusion and Remark: Another Theory Concerning the Composition of Bodies of Infinite Parts 3. Admonition: Evidence for the Unsoundness of the Above Theories 4. A Follow-up: On the Infinity of the Imaginative Division of Bodies 5. Admonition: Regarding Movement and Time as Also Divisible to Infinity 6. Remark: Regarding the Difference Between That Which Is Continuous in Itself and That Which Has the Capacity for Continuity 7. Delusion and Admonition: Concerning the Unity of the Nature of Corporeal Extension in Itself 8. Delusion and Admonition: Concerning the Ways in Which Disjunction Is Possible for That Which Is Continuous 9. Admonition: Concerning Why a Species for Which It Is Possible to Have a Plurality of Individuals May Be Obstructed from Having More Than One 10. A Follow-up: Concerning the First Matter as That Which in Itself Has No Quantity and in Which Any Quantity Can Subsist 11. Remark: Concerning the Evidence for the Finitude of Distances 12. Remark: Concerning the Necessary Accompaniment of Shape to Corporeal Extension 13. Delusion and Remark: Concerning the Cause of the Shape of the Sphere 14. Admonition: Concerning the Cause of Position 15. Admonition: Concerning the Necessity of Form for Position 16. A Follow-up: Conclusion Regarding the Necessity of Corporeal Form for Matter 17. Admonition: Concerning Matter as Also Not Free from Forms Other Than Corporeal Ones 18. Remark: Concerning the Fact That, in Addition to Matter, There Is Necessity for External Determinants of the Corporeal Form 19. Delusion and Admonition: On the Joining of Matter and Form as Necessary for the Actual Subsistence of Matter 20. Remark: On the Departure of Forms from One Matter to Another 21. Remark: Concerning the Demonstration That the Corporeal Forms Cannot Be Independent or Intermediary Causes of Matter 22.Delusion and Admonition: Refutation of the Claim That Matter Is the Cause of the Existence of the Form 23. Remark: Concerning the Subsistance of Matter During the Process of Form Substitution 24. Remark: Concerning the Priority of Form to Matter 25. Remark: On the Manner in Which Form Is Prior 26. Delusion and Admonition: Concerning the Priority in Essence of the Cause to the Effect Despite the Temporal Simultaneity of the Two 27. A Follow-up: The Inference to Be Drawn Regarding the Similarity Between the Priority of the Form Which Is Inseparable from Its Matter and That Which Is Separable 28. Admonition: The Priority of the Body to the Surface, the Surface to the Line, and the Line to the Point 29. Admonition: On the Absence of the Interpenetration of Corporeal Dimensions 30. Remark: Concerning Quantitative Distances Among Disjoined Bodies 31. Admonition: On the Nonexistence of Void 32. Remark: On the Existence of Direction 33. Remark: Direction Is of a Sensible, Not an Intelligible Nature 34. Remark: Direction Is an Undivided Extremity of Dimension and Toward Which Movement Can Be Made 35. Delusion and Admonition: Concerning the Concrete Existence of Direction as Opposed to Its Conceptual Being

Second Class: On the Directions and Their Primary and Secondary Bodies

Third Class: On the Terrestrial and Celestial Souls

1.Admonition: Proof for the Existence of the Soul Through Intuition 2. Admonition: Concerning the Nonintermediary Manner in Which the Soul Is Apprehended 3. Admonition: Regarding the Nonsensible Nature of the Soul 4. Delusion and Admonition: The Soul Is Not Asserted by the Mediation of Its Acts 5. Remark: The Soul Is Not the Temperament of the Body, but the Substance That Manages the Body 6. Remark: Regarding the Unity of the Soul and Its Relationship to the Body 7. Remark: Concerning the Nature of Apprehension 8. Admonition: Concerning the Different Types of Apprehension 9. Remark: Concerning the Internal Senses 10. Remark: Concerning the Rational Soul 11. Admonition: The Difference Between Thought and Intuition 12. Remark: Evidence for the Existence of the Saintly Power 13. Remark: Evidence for the Existence of the Agent Intellect and for the Possibility of Our Soul’s Conjunction with It 14. Remark: The Cause of Conjunction with the Agent Intellect 15. Remark: The Soul’s Preparedness for Receiving the Intelligibles 16. Remark: Concerning the Immateriality of Intellectual Substances 17. Delusion and Admonition: Concerning the Indivisibility of That Which Apprehends the Intelligibles and the Divisibility of That Which Apprehends the Sensibles 18. Delusion and Admonition: The Issue of Division with Regard to the Intelligibles 19. Remark: To Intellect Is to Be Intelligible 20. Delusion and Admonition: Consideration of Intelligibility with Regard to the Material Form 21. Delusion and Admonition: Denial of the Claim That Individuality Is an Impediment to the Intelligibility of the Quiddity 22. Admonition: Recapitulation

Supplement to the [Third] Class: On Expositing the Movements Produced by the Soul

23. Admonition: A Preparatory Note 24. Remark: Powers of the Plant Soul 25. Remark: Movements Produced by the Animal Soul 26. Remark: Movements of Celestial Bodies 27. Premise: Concerning the Sensible and Intellectual Volitions 28. Remark: Concerning the Intellectual Volition of the Enveloping Sphere 29. Admonition: Concerning the Particular Volition 30. Rendezvous and Admonition: Movement Is Directed Toward an Object Which the Mover Considers Good for It

Part Three: Metaphysics

Fourth Class: On Existence and its Causes

1. Admonition: Denial of the View That the Existent Is Sensible 2. Delusion and Admonition: Concerning the Intelligibility of Universal Organs 3. Admonition: Further Evidence That the Existent Is Not Sensible 4. A Follow-up: The Existence of a Real Being Is Due to the Essential Reality of That Being and Cannot Be Pointed To 5. Admonition: Concerning the Difference Between the Causes of Quiddity and Those of Existence 6. Admonition: Regarding the Difference Between Essence and Concrete Existence 7. Remark: Causality of the Efficient and Final Causes 8. Remark: If There Is a First Cause, It Must Be an Efficient Cause for Everything Else That Exists 9. Admonition: The Necessary in Itself and the Possible in Itself 10. Remark: The Possible in Itself Cannot Exist Except Due to a Cause Other Than Itself 11. Admonition: An Infinite Chain of Possibles Is Possible and Cannot Become Necessary Except Through Another 12. Explication 13. Remark: The Cause of a Totality of Units Is First the Cause of Every One of the Units 14. Remark: If a Chain of Consecutive Causes and Effects Includes an Uncaused Cause, That Cause Must Be an Extremity 15. Remark: Since That Uncaused Cause Must Be a Limit, It Must be a Necessary Being in Itself 16. Remark: Concerning the Relation of Things Differing in Concrete Existence to Those Agreeing in Essence 17. Remark: The Existence of a Thing Cannot be Caused by That Thing’s Quiddity, Which Is Not Existence 18. Remark: Proof for the Unity of the Necessary in Existence 19. A Benefit: Concerning the Difference Among Things with the Same Specific Definition 20. A Follow-up: The Necessary in Existence Is Neither a Species Nor a Genus 21. Remark: That Whose Essence Is Necessary Is Simple and Indivisible 22. Remark: A Thing Whose Concept of Essence Does Not Include Existence Derives Its Existence from Something Other Than Its Essence 23. Admonition: That Which Is Necessary in Itself Is Neither a Body Nor Dependent on a Body 24. Remark: That Which Is Necessary in Itself Has No Genus or Species 25. Delusion and Admonition: Refutation of the View That Which Is Necessary in Itself Falls Under the Genus of Substance 26. Remark: That Which Is Necessary in Itself Has No Contrary 27. Admonition: That Which Is Necessary in Itself Has No Definition 28. Remark: That Which Is Necessary in Itself Is an Intelligence That Knows Itself and Is Known by Itself 29. Admonition: Proof for the Existence of That Which Is Necessary in Itself by Means of Reflection on Existence Itself

Fifth Class: Creation Ex Nihilo and Immediate Creation

1. Delusion and Admonition: Concerning the Commoners’ View That Once a Thing Comes Into Existence Its Need for the Cause of Its Existence Ceases 2. Admonition: Analysis of the Concept of Act 3. Completion and Remark: The Two Ways in Which a Thing May Be Necessary Through Another 4. Admonition: Concerning That Which Is Prior to the Generation of Things 5. Remark: Concerning the Quiddity of Time 6. Remark: Everything That Begins to Exist Is Possible in Existence Prior to Existing and Is in a Subject 7. Admonition: Essential Posteriority of Possible Things 8. Admonition: Once a Thing Is Complete as an Actual Cause, Its Effect Is Made Necessary 9. Admonition: On the Meaning of Al-Ibdāʿ 10. Admonition and Remark: The Existence of Things Possible in Themselves Is Necessitated by Their Cause 11. Admonition: Owing to Its Indivisible Reality, the One Can Produce Only One Thing 12. Delusions and Admonitions: Concerning the Different Views Regarding the Necessity and Possibility of Things

Sixth Class: On Ends, On their Principles, and on the Arrangement of Existence

Seventh Class: On Abstraction

1. Admonition: Concerning the Flow of Existence from the Noblest to the Basest and Its Return to the Source 2. Insight: The Loss of Bodily Instruments Does Not Harm the Rational Soul’s Intellection 3. Additional Insight: Powers That Depend on the Body Are Fatigued by Bodily Acts, but This May Often Be Contrary to Rational Powers 4. Additional Insight: Concerning the Difference Between the Mode of Apprehension of the Sensitive Powers and That of the Rational Ones 5. Additional Insight: Further Clarification of the Independence of the Rational Soul in Its Intellection 6. Continuation of These Remarks: The Essential Perfections of the Rational Soul (the Intelligibles It Acquires Independently) Ensure Its Incorruptibility 7. Delusion and Admonition: Refutation of an Ancient View Concerning the Manner in Which the Rational Soul Is Characterized by Its Intelligibles 8. Additional Admonition: Another Argument in Support of the Above Refutation 9. Another Delusion and Admonition: Falsehood of Assuming That the Rational Soul Becomes One with the Agent Intellect When It Intellects a Thing on the Ground That It Becomes One with the Acquired Intellect 10. Anecdote: Concerning Porphyry’s “Bad Ideas” on the Intellect and Intelligibles 11. Remark: On the Meaning of a Thing Becoming Another 12. A Follow-up: A Knower Is an Existing Essence in Which Intelligibles Are Established as a Thing Is Established in Another 13. Admonition: The Manner in Which the Intelligibles Are Represented in That Which Is Necessary in Existence and in the Principles That Follow It 14. Admonition: Knowledge of That Whose Existence Is Necessary Is Due to This Intellectual Principle Itself; Otherwise There Would Be an Infinity of Separate Intellects 15. Remark: The Manner in Which That Whose Existence Is Necessary Knows Itself and Knows Other Things 16. Remark: The Levels of Realization in the Universe, Their Objects and Quality 17. Delusion and Admonition: Knowledge of the Multiplicity by That Whose Existence Is Necessary Does Not Destroy His Unity 18. Remark: The Universal and Particular Manners in Which Particular Things May Be Known 19. Admonition and Remark: Types of Attribute Changes of Which Only That Which Does Not Affect the Essence May Apply to That Which Is Necessary in Existence 20. A Small Point: The Difference Between a Relative State and a Pure One 21. A Follow-up: The Modality and Extent of the Knowledge That the Necessary in Existence Enjoys 22. Remark: Concerning Providence 23. Remark: Addressing the Problem of Evil 24. Delusion and Admonition: Moral Evil Is Not Predominant 25. Admonition: Concerning Happiness in the Life to Come 26. Delusion and Admonition: The Reason Why the Region of the World That Has Evil Cannot Be Free from Evil 27. Delusion and Admonition: Addressing the Problem of Destiny

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