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Philosophical Instructions
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Translator’s Introduction
Part I: Introductory Discussions
Lesson One: A Glance at the Course of Philosophical Thought: (From Its Origins to the Islamic Epoch)
Lesson Two: A Glance at the Course of Philosophical Thought (from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century)
Lesson Three: A Glance at the Course of Philosophical Thought (in the last two centuries)
Lesson Four: The Technical Meanings of “Science” and “Philosophy”
Lesson Five: Philosophy and The Sciences
Lesson Six: What is Philosophy?
Lesson Seven: The Position of Philosophy
Lesson Eight: The Method of Philosophical Inquiry
Lesson Nine: The Relation between Philosophy and the Sciences
Lesson Ten: The Necessity of Philosophy
Part II: Epistemology
Lesson Eleven: Introduction to Epistemology
Lesson Twelve: The Self-Evidence of the Principles of Epistemology
Lesson Thirteen: The Divisions of Knowledge
Lesson Fourteen: Acquired Knowledge
Lesson Fifteen: Types of Universal Concepts
Lesson Sixteen: Empiricism
Lesson Seventeen: The Role of the Intellect and Sensation in Ideas
Lesson Eighteen: The Role of the Intellect and Sensation in Affirmations
Lesson Nineteen: The Value of Knowledge
Lesson Twenty: The Evaluation of Ethical and Legal Propositions
Part III: Ontology
Lesson Twenty-One: Introduction to Ontology
Lesson Twenty-Two: The Concept of Existence
Lesson Twenty-Three: Entified Reality
Lesson Twenty-Four: Existence and Whatness
Lesson Twenty-Five: Precepts of Whatness
Lesson Twenty-Six: Introduction to the Fundamentality of Existence
Lesson Twenty-Seven: The Fundamentality of Existence
Lesson Twenty-Eight: Unity and Multiplicity
Lesson Twenty-Nine: Unity and Multiplicity in Entified Existence
Lesson Thirty: The Levels of Existence
Part IV: Causality
Lesson Thirty-One: Cause and Effect
Lesson Thirty-Two: The Principle of Causation
Lesson Thirty-Three: The Causal Relation
Lesson Thirty-Four: The Causal Relation among Material Things
Lesson Thirty-Five: The Dependence of the Effect on the Cause
Lesson Thirty-Six: The Relations of Cause and Effect
Lesson Thirty-Seven: The Principles of Cause and Effect
Lesson Thirty-Eight: The Efficient Cause
Lesson Thirty-Nine: The Final Cause
Lesson Forty: The Purposefulness of the Cosmos
Part V: The Material and the Immaterial
Lesson Forty-One: The Material and the Immaterial
Lesson Forty-Two: What is Location?
Lesson Forty-Three: What is Time?
Lesson Forty-Four: Kinds of Substances
Lesson Forty-Five: Continuation of the Discussion of the Kinds of Substance
Lesson Forty-Six: Matter and Form
Lesson Forty-Seven: Accidents
Lesson Forty-Eight: Quality
Lesson Forty-Nine: The Reality of Knowledge
Lesson Fifty: The Union of the Knower and the Known
Part VI: The Immutable and the Changing
Lesson Fifty-One: The Immutable and the Changing
Lesson Fifty-Two: The Potential and the Actual
Lesson Fifty-Three: A Continuation of the Discussion of the Potential and the Actual
Lesson Fifty-Four: Generation and Corruption
Lesson Fifty-Five: Motion
Lesson Fifty-Six: Properties of Motion
Lesson Fifty-Seven: Divisions of Motion
Lesson Fifty-Eight: Motion in Accidents
Lesson Fifty-Nine: Motion in Substance
Lesson Sixty: Further Discussion of Substantial Motion
Part VII: Theology
Lesson Sixty-One: The Way to Know God
Lesson Sixty-Two: Demonstrations of the Necessary Existent
Lesson Sixty-Three: Tawhīd
Lesson Sixty-Four: The Unity of Divine Actions
Lesson Sixty-Five: The Divine Attributes
Lesson Sixty-Six: Attributes of Essence
Lesson Sixty-Seven: Attributes of Action
Lesson Sixty-Eight: The Purpose of Creation
Lesson Sixty-Nine: Divine Decree and Destiny
Lesson Seventy: Good and Evil in the Cosmos