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Dr. Ahmed Abdel Meguid
Department of Religion, Syracuse University

COURSE OVERVIEW

What is Metaphysics or Ontology? Why was the question of being/existence considered the subject matter of first philosophy prima philosophia? What are the most important problems of ontology?

COURSE CONTENT

I. Metaphysics and Its Aporias

• Unit 1 – Aristotle and the Problems of Defining Metaphysics
• Unit 2 – Understanding Universal in Terms of Essences
•  Unit 3 – The Platonic Crisis of Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Part 1)
•  Unit 4 – The Crisis of Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Part 2)
•  Unit 5 – Kant and the Modern Epistemic Critique of Metaphysics
•  Unit 6 – The Main Achievements of Kant’s Critique of the Metaphysics (Part 1)
•  Unit 7 – The Main Achievements of Kant’s Critique (Part 2)
•  Unit 8 – Post-Kantian Metaphysics and Its Problems—Continental European Philosophy (Part 1)
•  Unit 9 – Post-Kantian Metaphysics and Its Problems—Analytical Anglo-American Philosophy (Part 2)

II. Islamic Philosophy from Essentialist Metaphysics to Modal Metaphysics

•  Unit 10 – Islamic Philosophy (falsafah): Al-Kindī
•  Unit 11 – Islamic Philosophy (falsafah): Al-Ghazālī’s Critical Synthesis
•  Unit 12 – Islamic Philosophy (falsafah): Averroes Reconstruction of al-Ghazālī’s Critical Synthesis

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