Ибн-Сина (Авиценна). Указания и напоминания [Раздел по метафизике]. Часть вторая

This is a continuation of the translation into Russian of the treatise al-Isharat wa-t-Tanbihat (“Remarks and Admonitions”) by Ibn-Sina (Avicenna, 980- 1037). The present article comprises the Chapter 5 of Avicenna’s treatise, which deals with the state of the Necessary Existent (i.e. God) as First Principle, discusses various modes for bringing things into being and criticizes the thesis about the temporal finitism. The chapter also contains a justification of the eternal invention (ibda’) as a supreme level of creation, which is most adequately expresses the Divine absolute perfection