Avicenna's Kitab al-Shifa (Book of the Remedy/Healing) — the most comprehensive philosophical encyclopedia of the medieval world, covering logic, natural science, mathematics, and metaphysics in the Aristotelian tradition.
Developed the distinction between essence and existence (essence does not include existence — existence is added to essence); the floating man argument for the soul's direct self-awareness; the necessary being argument for God; hylomorphic analysis of the natural world.
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