🧩 Philosophy Jun 10, 2026 · Olga Lizzini

Ibn Sina’s Metaphysics

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[Revised entry by Olga Lizzini on June 9, 2026.
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For Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) metaphysics is a science (ʿilm), i.e., a perfectly rationally established discipline that allows human reason to achieve an authentic understanding of the inner structure of the world. Metaphysics is the science of being qua being and therefore the science that explains every being. In his interpretation, Avicenna fuses the Aristotelian tradition, which he intends to renew (Gutas 2014),

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