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Metaphysics. By Aristotle. Commentary: Many comments have been posted about Metaphysics . Download: A text-only version is available for download . Metaphysics. By Aristotle. Written 350 B.C.E. Translated by W. D. Ross. Book I. Part 1. "ALL men by nature desire to know.
What is known to us as metaphysics is what Aristotle called "first philosophy." Metaphysics involves a study of the universal principles of being, the abstract qualities of existence itself. Perhaps the starting point of Aristotle's metaphysics is his rejection of Plato's Theory of Forms.
Aristotle says that if there were not things apart from bodies, physics would be first philosophy. But he calls physics second philosophy, and half theMetaphysics lies on the other side of the questions we have been posing. It consists in the uncovering of beings not disclosed to our senses, beings outside of and causal with respect to what we ...
Aristotle, Metaphysics ("Agamemnon", "Hom. Od. 9.1", "denarius") All Search Options [view abbreviations] ... [20] therefore if it was to escape ignorance that men studied philosophy, it is obvious that they pursued science for the sake of knowledge, and not for any practical utility.The actual course of events bears witness to this; for ...
Metaphysics, for Aristotle, was the study of nature and ourselves. In this sense he brings metaphysics to this world of sense experience–where we live, learn, know, think, and speak. Metaphysics is the study of being qua being, which is, first, the study of the different ways the word “be” can be used.
Metaphysics. By Aristotle. Written 350 B.C.E. Translated by W. D. Ross. Book XII. Part 1. "The subject of our inquiry is substance; for the principles and the causes we are seeking are those of substances.
