Monday, November 29, 2021

The Illogic of Contradiction – 'Metaphysics' by Aristotle

Joel Bowman at Classical Wisdom.

"Although the prefix 'meta' actually means 'beyond,' leading many scholars to misinterpret its meaning as the study of what is 'outside of' or 'beyond' nature, Aristotle himself used the term to describe what he saw as the 'first philosophy.' For him, it was physics, then the basic questioning of and about them: metaphysics."

See Aristotle, Works, in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volumes 8-9, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volumes 7-8.

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