METAPHYSICS

METAPHYSICS

1. Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that studies the central drawbacks of philosophical thought: being as such, the absolute, God, the planet, the soul. In this line, it aspires to explain the characteristics, foundations, conditions and primary reasons for the truth, as well as its meaning and purpose.

2. For Aristotle, metaphysics is the first philosophy, the one that deals with the first reasons, of being as such, from which the aspect that it is going to offer in ontology follows.

3. experience must give with science and art

   • is formed from various experiences that then form a single general conception

4. "art come to men through experience; for 'experience made art"

5. "Wisdom is knowledge about certain principles and causes"

6. to begin to philosophize about principles it is necessary to have the capacity for wonder

7. A philosopher is characterized by knowing more rigorously than anyone the analysis of reasons. He focuses more on the desire to know than on the results of any inquiry.

8. Philosophy studies are characterized by the appearance of God since God is the beginning and cause of all things that exist

9. Ancient philosophers like Hesiod told us that love had come first, while Empedocles told us that friendship is the beginning of all good, and enmity the beginning of all evil.

10. Leucippo and Democritus say that the causes of beings were due to the differences between solidity and emptiness; that is, being and not being.

11. Pythagorean

    • According to Pythagoras' theory, things are established from numbers
    • Other Pythagoreans said that things were made up of dualities like good and evil; the bitter and the sweet etc.

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