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Metaphysics
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1. DefinitionMetaphysics (Middle Latin
metaphysica, from Greek
ta metá physiká, “the [works traditionally arranged] after the
Physics [in the Aristotelian canon]”) has since Greco-Roman antiquity been the traditional name for a theoretical discipline that deals not with individual objects as such, but with everything that is and can (therefore) be thought about: the
Sein alles Seienden (Heidegger: the "being of all that is being"). Since Aristotle, then, metaphysics has been regarded as the “primal philosophy”, that is, the guiding discipline of …
Date:
2019-10-14
