6/26/2023 0 Comments Metaphysics according to aristotle![]() ![]() Even Neoplatonists like Porphyry also worried about the existential status of the Platonic ideas. Where Plato made his realm of ideas the "real world," Aristotle made the material world the source of ideas as mere abstractions from common properties found in many concrete objects. i.e., material or concrete, objects, because ideas can be more permanent (the Being of Parmenides), whereas material objects are constantly changing (the Becoming of Heraclitus). For Plato, Aristotle's master, the realm of abstract ideas was more "real" than that of physical. ![]() The Greek for nature is physis, so metaphysical is also "beyond the natural." Proponents of modern naturalism deny the existence of anything metaphysical.Īristotle never used the term metaphysics. Andronicus edited and arranged Aristotle's works, giving the name Metaphysics (τα μετα τα φυσικα βιβλια), literally "the books beyond the physics," perhaps the books to be read after reading Aristotle's books on nature, which he called the Physics. Metaphysics has signified many things in the history of philosophy, but it has not strayed far from a literal reading of "beyond the physical." The term was invented by the 1st-century BCE head of Aristotle's Peripatetic school, Andronicus of Rhodes. Henry Quastler Adolphe Quételet Lord Rayleigh Jürgen Renn Juan Roederer Jerome Rothstein David Ruelle Tilman Sauer ![]()
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