 Fârâbî aims to revive the sciences of the ancients, especially the philosophical disciplines practiced by Plato and Aristotle, to replace the (as he thinks) non-demonstrative disciplines of his contemporaries, and to resolve their otherwise interminable disputes. This centrally includes a project of reviving scientific metaphysics, because metaphysics (rather than physics or other sciences) offers the hope of a scientific demonstration that God exists and has no partner or contrary, and a scientific resolution of the kalâm issues about God’s attributes and acts, and the relation of God’s acts to creatures and their  acts.[1]  Perhaps metaphysics can also determine whether the human soul, or some part of it, survives death, and thus can resolve the kalâm issue about our “return” to God. But also, apart from whatever metaphysics may say about immortality, Fârâbî thinks, following Aristotle, that the highest human happiness consists in the contemplation of God, so that metaphysics will describe the content of our possible happiness after death, and will come as close as we can come to anticipating it in this life.