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	Metaphysics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aristotle is regarded as the "father" of metaphysics.
		Metaphysics as a discipline was a central part of academic inquiry and scholarly education even before the age in which Aristotle coined the word.
		Other problems that were considered metaphysical problems for centuries are now typically relegated to their own separate subheadings in philosophy, such as philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metaphysics (2167 words)

	Aristotle's Metaphysics
		Aristotle proposes a solution that applies to definitions reached by the “method of division.” According to this method (see Aristotle's logic), one begins with the broadest genus containing the species to be defined, and divides the genus into two sub-genera by means of some differentia.
		The answer Aristotle proposes is that the cause of being of a substance (e.g., of a house) is the form or essence that is predicated of the matter (e.g., of the bricks and stones) that constitute that substance.
		The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/aristotle-metaphysics (12933 words)

	Aristotle
		Although the surviving works of Aristotle probably represent only a fragment of the whole, they include his investigations of an amazing range of subjects, from logic, philosophy, and ethics to physics, biology, psychology, politics, and rhetoric.
		There he considered the natural desire to achieve happiness, described the operation of human volition and moral deliberation, developed a theory of each virtue as the mean between vicious extremes, discussed the value of three kinds of friendship, and defended his conception of an ideal life of intellectual pursuit.
		Gordon L. Ziniewicz on the physics and metaphysics and the ethics of Aristotle.
	www.philosophypages.com /ph/aris.htm (771 words)

	Aristotle (384-322 BCE): General Introduction [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Aristotle defines the imagination as "the movement which results upon an actual sensation." In other words, it is the process by which an impression of the senses is pictured and retained before the mind, and is accordingly the basis of memory.
		Aristotle notes that there is a purely rational part of the soul, the calculative, which is responsible for the human ability to contemplate, reason logically, and formulate scientific principles.
		As an analogy, Aristotle comments that, either "excess or deficiency of gymnastic exercise is fatal to strength." Third, he argues that desire-regulating virtues are character traits, and are not to be understood as either emotions or mental faculties.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/a/aristotl.htm (7037 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Metaphysics
		Aristotle himself had referred to that portion of philosophy as "the theological science" (theologikê), because it culminated in the consideration of the nature of God, and as "first philosophy" (prôtê philosophia), both because it considered the first causes of things, and because, in his estimation, it is first in importance.
		Metaphysics, in so far as it treats of immaterial beings, is called special metaphysics and is divided into rational psychology, which treats of the human soul, rational theology, which treats of the existence and attributes of God, and cosmology, which treats of the ultimate principles of the universe.
		The condition of metaphysics is, indeed, such as to invite the contempt and provoke the disdain of the scientist; the fault, however, may lie not so much in the claims of metaphysics as in the vagaries of the metaphysicians.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10226a.htm (8561 words)

	Aristotle -- Metaphysics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Aristotle taught that the causes of characteristics of things were to be looked for not in a separate world of forms but in the primary instances of those characteristics right here in the world.
		Aristotle would have done that if his whole intention had been to establish that the sensible world has a divine source, but had he done so he would have left no foundation for reversing the dialectical motion of his argument to understand the things in the world on the basis of their sources.
		Aristotle's definition of the soul in De Anima, soul is the being-at-work-staying-the-same of an organized body, becomes the definition of form in Book 8 of the Metaphysics, and is, at that stage of the inquiry, his definition of being.
	www.iep.utm.edu /a/aris-met.htm (8228 words)

	Aristotle's Metaphysics
		Aristotle begins Z.10 by endorsing the following principle about definitions and their parts: “a definition is an account, and every account has parts, and part of the account stands to part of the thing in just the same way that the whole account stands to the whole thing” (1034b20-22).
		Aristotle begins by returning to the candidates for the title of ousia introduced in Z.3, and points out that having now discussed the claims of the subject and the essence, it is time to consider the third candidate, the universal.
		In Z.17 Aristotle proposes a new point of departure in his effort to say what sort of a thing substance is. The new idea is that a substance is a “principle and a cause” (archê kai aitia, 1041a9) of being.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/fall2002/entries/aristotle-metaphysics (11037 words)

	Metaphysics Principles Reality: Quotes by Philosophers Aristotle, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Einstein on Metaphysics Truth
		As Aristotle explains, Metaphysics is the study of the One Substance (and its Properties) which exists and causes all things, and is therefore the necessary foundation for all human knowledge.
		Aristotle was quite remarkable, and here he alludes to the fact that Time and Motion are intimately interconnected, that Time did not exist as something in itself but was caused by the Motion of Matter.
		Time was, when she (Metaphysics) was the queen of all the sciences; and, if we take the will for the deed, she certainly deserves, so far as regards the high importance of her object-matter, this title of honour.
	www.spaceandmotion.com /Metaphysics-Principles-Reality.htm (12924 words)

	Review of Heidegger's Aristotle's Metaphysics IX 1-3
		In this part of the Metaphysics Aristotle is concerned with the "potential" inherent in being.
		In chapter one Aristotle discusses the potency of beings as their quality; specifically their potential for force as movement, potential and causality, and the privation of potential.
		He describes the similarities between Aristotle's and the Megaric interpretation of actuality, and the differences due to their contrasting perception of change and presence.
	webcom.com /~paf/metathet.html (511 words)

	Aristotle: Reality and Knowledge
		Aristotle believed this to be the case because metaphysics is concerned with a genuinely unique subject matter.
		But Aristotle argued that the theory of forms is seriously flawed: it is not supported by good arguments; it requires a form for each thing; and it is too mathematical.
		Aristotle therefore maintained that each individual substance is a hylomorphic composite involving both matter and form together.
	www.philosophypages.com /hy/2p.htm (1355 words)

	Metaphysics: Multiple Meanings
		Some of the varying understandings of metaphysics held by some founders of New Thought and Christian Science are given in the opening pages of Contrasting Strains of Metaphysical Idealism Contributing to New Thought.
		Gathering knowledge (or alleged knowledge, critics of metaphysics would say) in metaphysics traditionally is by rational thought; in a more popular understanding, knowledge gathering may be either mystical or occult; in either case the pure (?) knowledge is to be distinguished from the practical application of it.
		A non-traditional, scientifically-oriented form of metaphysics is at Project Metaphysics, and a mathematically-linguistically-formalistically-oriented form at the Metaphysics Research Lab at the Center for the Study of Language and Information on the Stanford University campus.
	websyte.com /alan/metamul.htm (867 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Metaphysics by Aristotle
		Metaphysics has been divided into the following sections:
		Commentary: Many comments have been posted about Metaphysics.
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	classics.mit.edu /Aristotle/metaphysics.html (27 words)

	Aristotle Metaphysics: One Substance
		Summary and History of the Metaphysics of Aristotle
		And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which, just as a thing that is, it has.
		On Philosophy Metaphysics and Physics - The Wave Structure of Matter
	www.spaceandmotion.com /metaphysics-aristotle.htm (4808 words)

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		Available online at http://classics.mit.edu//Aristotle/metaphysics.html Metaphysics By Aristotle Translated by W. Ross ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOK I Part 1 "ALL men by nature desire to know.
		An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight.
	classics.mit.edu /Aristotle/metaphysics.mb.txt (12191 words)

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