Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, on Apr. 2009
Metaphysics is one of the fundamental parts of the philosophy which deals with the study of being, its properties, principles, causes and fundamentals essentials of its existence, that is to say and in other words, metaphysics focuses its attention towards everything that transcends the merely physical.
In addition, this important branch of philosophy, distributes its attention to two questions that are those that in turn determine its division into two large branches, the Ontology which is the one that will deal exclusively with the study of Being and its essence and, on the other hand, Theology, which dedicates its efforts to the study of God and his essence.
Likewise and since ancient times, more precisely in Ancient Greece, the place and time in which many were occupied with these questions, metaphysics constituted the highest knowledge to which a person could hope to reach, since it contained those last transcendental questions that we ask ourselves about life and being, between others.
In regards to your denomination, that is, the reason why the name of metaphysics was chosen to name this type of study, is that they were called that way a series of 14 books written by one of the most important philosophers of that time, Aristotle and that of course discussed these questions.
And as metaphysics is question and occupies, as we said, the study of being and this implies a lot of things at the same time: an origin, a Constitution, one interrelation, among others, is that metaphysics will deal individually with issues such as nothingness, reality, mind, nature, Liberty, the changes, the relationship between universals and individuals, the duty to be and its contrast with the duty to be, among the most salient.
But now, we mention everything that it deals with, however, the most important thing remains for us, which is how it does it... and it does it in different ways... speculative, starting from a supreme question, for example being and starting from it, it will interpret all reality, inductively too, configuring a gaze metaphysics of the world or reductionist, understood as a simple whole built from assumptions from which individuals always had to start to know and act.
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