ABSTRACT
Abu'l-Barakat begins his discussion of the metaphysical attributes after his strongest vindication of the Platonic ideas, for the counterparts to the ideas were utilized to explain the knowledge of the First Existent. Abu'l-Barakat writes polemically against Avicenna's denial of God's knowledge of particulars, while affirming such knowledge. For Abu'l-Barakat, the attributes cannot exist on their own without the ipseity; however, the ipseity does have a primary essential aspect without attributes and actions, as it has come forth primarily and separate without the attributes. Abu'l-Barakat explains his conception of the development of existence, that is, how existence of the triadic existent comes forth from the Necessary Existent. The notion of the attribute was described in conjunction with the ipseity, where the transfer of the attribute determines a certain effect. Abu'l-Barakat wishes to prove this conception and connect this notion of the attributes to the divine attributes of the First. Abu'l-Barakat conceives the existent as being complex as an organism.
