Douglas Stones

Aristotle - Metaphysics Douglas Stones

Aristotle (classical Greek: ★★★★★★?????; romaniz.: Aristotél?s; Stagira, 384 BCE. - Athens, 322 BCE) "There is a science that considers being as being and the competencies that it has as such. It is not identified with any of the particular sciences: indeed, none of the other sciences universally considers being as being, but delimiting a part of it, each studies the characteristics of that part."This definition by Aristotle may be a first and more general elucidation of what Metaphysics is: an area of Philosophy or, as he called it, a general science, a kind of master or mother science of all sciences. Before Andronicus of Rhodes' classification, Aristotle himself called his studies of Metaphysics "First Philosophy" because it was a body of knowledge independent of any empirical activity and any sensory experience.