
HoP 177 - To Be or Not to Be - Debating Avicenna’s Metaphysics
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Parallel Between Avocena and Arazi
Asharite theologian Atir adine Al-Abhari rejected Arazi's idea that existence is always the same, whether it belongs to God or creatures. He said everything real must be either necessary or contingent; neither option looks good. The essential differences between things will be unmasked as an illusion, Rumi writes.
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