Metaphysics
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Metaphysics is Aristotle’s foundational philosophical treatise that investigates the nature of being, reality, and first principles beyond the physical world.
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philosophical treatise
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work by Aristotle → |
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nature of substance and essence
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principle of non-contradiction → problem of universals → |
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Aristotle
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fourteen books
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| dateWritten |
4th century BCE
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philosophy
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first causes
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nature of being → nature of reality → principles beyond the physical world → |
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Book Alpha
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Book Beta → Book Delta → Book Epsilon → Book Eta → Book Gamma → Book Iota → Book Kappa → Book Lambda → Book Mu → Book Nu → Book Theta → Book Zeta → |
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Classical Greek philosophy
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| influenced |
Christian scholasticism
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Islamic philosophy → Thomas Aquinas → early modern philosophy → medieval philosophy → |
| keyConcept |
actuality (energeia)
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form (eidos) → four causes → matter (hyle) → potentiality (dunamis) → substance (ousia) → unmoved mover → |
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being qua being
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cause → first principles → form → matter → ontology → potentiality and actuality → substance → theology → |
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Ancient Greek
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metaphysics
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| title |
Metaphysics
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| titleEtymology |
named for works placed after the Physics
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later editors
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On the Soul
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Posterior Analytics → |
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Aristotle
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Metaphysics (Aristotle)
("metaphysics")
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Metaphysics (Aristotle)
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