Metaphysics (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
William Turner · 1913
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Metaphysics is that part of philosophy which treats the most general and basic principles beneath all reality and all knowledge. The entry covers its name, definition, rejection, relations to other sciences and to theology, method, history, and doctrine of being. Its name comes from Greek meta ta phusika, a title Andronicus of Rhodes gave about A.D. 70 to Aristotle's treatises that follow the Physics.
Aristotle himself called this field the theological science, since it crowns itself in God's nature, and first philosophy, since it treats first causes and ranks first in worth. His editor, missing both titles, named the collection after the physics. Later commentators then sought deeper reasons for the name, reading it as the science of being as being, of immaterial being, of the most abstract and universal notions, and of first principles.
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| CREATOR | William Turner |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 62 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |