The Lexicon · Genealogy · Medieval
IBN ARABI
1165–1240
Waḥdat al-Wujūd (The Concept Is the Only Thing)
Ibn Arabi: the unity of being — there is, in truth, only one existence, of which all things are aspects. CoCA's claim that the Concept is the Divine Act (§1.1.1) is the same metaphysics with a different vocabulary. The Concept is not one entity among others; it is the only entity, of which the institution, the artwork, the wall text, the meeting, and the form are aspects. Multiplicity is administrative; unity is doctrinal.