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Metaphysics — Substance
When we were investigating essence, we saw that our intellect holds universals, not individuals, meaning that, from the “standpoint of intelligibility…
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Metaphysics — Act and Potency
Parmenides of Elea had famously denied change using the two fundamental axioms of philosophy: Identity (being is what it is) and Non-Contradiction…
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Metaphysics — Essences
The essence of a thing is what that thing is necessarily and primarily as the first principle of its intelligibility.
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Metaphysics — Epistemology
Philosophy, as was stated before, is distinguished from all other sciences by its focus on the highest causes.
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Parmenides
The greatest of the pre-Socratics, Parmenides of Elea invented the field of metaphysics and started the field of philosophy proper.
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The Greek Philosophers: The Physicists
The Greek philosophers were the first to pursue philosophy, per se, for its own sake.
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Table of Contents: Master
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Table of Contents: History of Philosophy
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Table of Contents: Logic
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History of Philosophy: An Introduction
Before tackling any philosophical question, Aristotle would always consider the history of the question and try to find a “middle way” between extremes.
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The Structure of the Syllogism
A Syllogism is valid when its conclusion follows from its premises.
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Reasoning, the Laws of Logic
Reasoning is “the operation by which the spirit, from two or more known relations, concludes another relation which is derived logically from them…
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