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标题：Avicenna’s Necessary Being
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作者：Muhammad Kamal
期刊名称：Open Journal of Philosophy
印刷版ISSN：2163-9434
电子版ISSN：2163-9442
出版年度：2016
卷号：06
期号：02
页码：194-200
DOI：10.4236/ojpp.2016.62018
语种：English
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：This article examines the distinctive characteristics of Avicenna’s doctrine of the Necessary Being, arguing that Avicenna developed his doctrine under the influence of Aristotle’s metaphysical thinking, but, unlike Aristotle he does not proceed from the distinction between form and matter. Instead, Avicenna has established his doctrine on essence-existence dichotomy. The article also investigates Avicenna’s view on God’s knowledge of particulars in light of his doctrine of the Necessary Being. The article begins by discussing Aristotle’s analysis of the meaning of the prime cause and its simplicity. It will then examine the simplicity of the Necessary Being in light of Aristotle’s metaphysics.
关键词：Metaphysics;Existence;Essence;Form;Matter;Substance;Necessary Existent;Possible Existent;Cause;Effect;Knowledge;Universals;Particulars;Aristotle;Avicenna