  Albo’s theory of principles is the focal point of his book, the framework upon which its sections are built, and the element that grants the book its name. Naturally, the academic debate on the theory of principles is also quite extensive. Below we will relate to two aspects of the theory. First we will present the conceptual structure of the theory of principles as detailed in the first treatise of Sefer ha-‘Ikkarim, and then we will survey the various approaches of the scholarship on this theory.