This study examines a number of different answers to the question: where does Avicenna demonstrate the existence of God within the Metaphysics of the Healing? Many interpreters have contended that there is an argument for God's existence in Metaphysics of the Healing I.6–7. In this study I show that such views are incorrect and that the only argument for God's existence in the Metaphysics of the Healing is found in VIII.1–3. My own interpretation relies upon a careful consideration of the scientific order and first principles of the Metaphysics of the Healing, paying attention to Avicenna's own explicit statements concerning the goals and intentions of different books and chapters, and a close analysis of the structure of the different arguments found in the relevant texts of the Metaphysics of the Healing. I conclude that Avicenna's explicit goal in I.6–7 is to establish the properties that belong to necessary existence and possible existence, which consists, not in a demonstration of God's existence, but in a dialectical treatment of the first principles of metaphysics.

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阿维森纳在哪里证明了上帝的存在？

这项研究检验了对这个问题的许多不同答案：阿维森纳在哪里证明了上帝在宇宙中的存在？治疗的形而上学? 许多解释者争辩说，上帝存在于治疗的形而上学一.6-7。在这项研究中，我表明这些观点是不正确的，并且证明上帝存在的唯一论据治疗的形而上学见 VIII.1-3。我自己的解释依赖于对科学秩序和第一原则的仔细考虑。治疗的形而上学，注意阿维森纳自己关于不同书籍和章节的目标和意图的明确陈述，并仔细分析在相关文本中发现的不同论点的结构治疗的形而上学. 我得出结论，阿维森纳在 I.6-7 中的明确目标是建立属于必然存在和可能存在的属性，这不是对上帝存在的证明，而是对形而上学第一原则的辩证处理。