Ibn Sina’s Arguments Against God’s Being a Substance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface of the Editors 1
4. Substances, Attributes, and Modes – Substantial Structures in Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz 7
5. Mulla Sadra’s Theory of Substantial Motion 25
6. A Report on Graduate Work in Qom on the Problems of Essence/Attribute and Substance/Accident 45
7. Aristotle and Farabi on the Definition and Priority of Substance 67
8. A Formal Analysis of Selected Proofs by Aquinas for the Uniqueness of God 79
9. Reshaping the Concept of Substance: The Renegade Ockham 107
10. Ibn Sina’s Arguments Against God’s Being a Substance 117
11. Substance, Nature, and Immanence – Form in Aristotle´s Constituent Ontology 145
12. From Aristotle’s Ousia to Ibn Sina’s Jawhar 163
13. Substance, Causality, and Freedom – An Ontological Revision of the Theory of Agent Causation 173
14. Substantial Motion and Perpetual Creation 193
15. Psychic Substance: A Meeting Point between Metaphysics & Spirituality 215
16. Ibn Sina on Substances and Accidents 229
17. God as Substance without Substance Ontology 237
18. The Editors 247
19. List of Authors 247
20. Backmatter 249