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    All incorporeal lights must apprehend their own essences — Carmelics
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    All incorporeal lights must apprehend their own essences

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    • 1.The human ego (ana'iyya) is an incorporeal light
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    • 2.The human ego is self-conscious
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    • 3.Incorporeal lights do not differ in their realities
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    • 1.Avicenna's 'Flying Man' argument establishes self-awareness only for the rational soul, not for all immaterial entities like intellects or celestial souls.
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    • 2.Suhrawardi's inference from the human ego to all incorporeal lights illicitly universalizes a property demonstrated only for one species of immaterial being.
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    • 3.A valid inference from 'same reality' requires that the shared reality is precisely the property doing the explanatory work, which Suhrawardi does not establish.
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    • 1.Leibniz's petites perceptions demonstrate that mental states can exist in an incorporeal substance without accompanying self-awareness.
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    • 2.If some incorporeal substances have unconscious representations, self-apprehension cannot be a necessary feature of incorporeality as such.
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    The concept of self-awareness informs the epistemological and ontological aspects of Suhrawardi’s metaphysic of lights. Building upon a basic type of self-awareness found in Avicenna (but without its inference to the substantiality of the human soul) and the selfhood (of the contemplative soul) of the Arabic Plotinus, Suhrawardi introduces a pre-cognitive level of self-consciousness or self-awareness, logically prior to any distinction between subject and object (Kaukua 2011, 141–4). Self-awaren
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    The human ego (ana'iyya) is an incorporeal light
    The human ego is self-conscious
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