Part 1: Introductory Discussions
Lesson 1: A Glance at the Course of Philosophical Thought (From Its Origins to the Islamic Epoch)
Lesson 2: A Glance at the Course of Philosophical Thought (from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century)
Lesson 3: A Glance at the Course of Philosophical Thought (In The Last Two Centuries)
Lesson 4: The Technical Meanings of Science and Philosophy
Lesson 5: Philosophy And The Sciences
Lesson 6: What is Philosophy?
Lesson 7: The Position of Philosophy
Lesson 8: The Method of Philosophical Inquiry
Lesson 9: The Relation between Philosophy and the Sciences
Lesson 10: The Necessity of Philosophy
- Philosophical Instructions
- Translator’s Introduction
- The Author
- The Translation
- Part 1: Introductory Discussions
- Lesson 1: A Glance at the Course of Philosophical Thought
- Lesson 2: A Glance at the Course of Philosophical Thought
- Lesson 3: A Glance at the Course of Philosophical Thought
- Lesson 4: The Technical Meanings of Science and Philosophy
- Lesson 5: Philosophy And The Sciences
- Lesson 6: What is Philosophy?
- Lesson 7: The Position of Philosophy
- Lesson 8: The Method of Philosophical Inquiry
- Lesson 9: The Relation between Philosophy and the Sciences
- Lesson 10: The Necessity of Philosophy
- Part 2: Epistemology
- Lesson 11: Introduction to Epistemology
- Lesson 12: The Self-Evidence of the Principles of Epistemology
- Lesson 13: The Divisions of Knowledge
- Lesson 14: Acquired Knowledge
- Lesson 15: Types of Universal Concepts
- Lesson 16: Empiricism
- Lesson 17: The Role of the Intellect and Sensation in Ideas
- Lesson 18: The Role of the Intellect and Sensation in Affirmations
- Lesson 19: The Value of Knowledge
- Lesson 20: The Evaluation of Ethical and Legal Propositions
- Part 3: Ontology
- Lesson 21: Introduction to Ontology
- Lesson 22: The Concept of Existence
- Lesson 23: Entified Reality
- Lesson 24: Existence and Whatness
- Lesson 25: Precepts of Whatness
- Lesson 26: Introduction to the Fundamentality of Existence
- Lesson 27: The Fundamentality of Existence
- Lesson 28: Unity and Multiplicity
- Lesson 29: Unity and Multiplicity in Entified Existence
- Lesson 30: The Levels of Existence
- Part 4: Causality
- Lesson 31: Cause and Effect
- Lesson 32: The Principle of Causation
- Lesson 33: The Causal Relation
- Lesson 34: The Causal Relation among Material Things
- Lesson 35: The Dependence of the Effect on the Cause
- Lesson 36: The Relations of Cause and Effect
- Lesson 37: The Principles of Cause and Effect
- Lesson 38: The Efficient Cause
- Lesson 39: The Final Cause
- Lesson 40: The Purposefulness of the Cosmos
- Part 5: The Material And The Immaterial
- Lesson 41: The Material and the Immaterial
- Lesson 42: What is Location?
- Lesson 43: What is Time?
- Lesson 44: Kinds of Substances
- Lesson 45: Continuation of the Discussion of the Kinds of Substance
- Lesson 46: Matter and Form
- Lesson 47: Accidents
- Lesson 48: Quality
- Lesson 49: The Reality of Knowledge
- Lesson 50: The Union of the Knower and the Known
- Part 6: The Immutable And The Changing
- Lesson 51: The Immutable and the Changing
- Lesson 52: The Potential and the Actual
- Lesson 53: A Continuation of the Discussion of the Potential and the Actual
- Lesson 54: Generation and Corruption
- Lesson 55: Motion
- Lesson 56: Properties of Motion
- Lesson 57: Divisions of Motion
- Lesson 58: Motion in Accidents
- Lesson 59: Motion in Substance
- Lesson 60: Further Discussion of Substantial Motion
- Part 7: Theology
- Lesson 61: The Way to Know God
- Lesson 62: Demonstrations of the Necessary Existent
- Lesson 63: Tawhid
- Lesson 64: The Unity of Divine Actions
- Lesson 65: The Divine Attributes
- Lesson 66: Attributes of Essence
- Lesson 67: Attributes of Action
- Lesson 68: The Purpose of Creation
- Lesson 69: Divine Decree and Destiny
- Lesson 70: Good and Evil in the Cosmos