METAPHYSIC

METAPHYSIC

1. Part of the philosophy that deals with being as such, and its properties, principles and first causes.

2. For Aristoteles we'll have 4 teories of causes

   • The material cause. What a thing is made of;
   • The formal cause. What is a thing;
   • The efficient cause, the agent that produces it.
   • The final cause, the why of a thing.

3. Is NOT

   • Ethics and Morality
   • Knowledge
   • Justification
   • Belief
   • Logic
   • Beauty and Aesthetics
   • Theories of meaning and theories of mind

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