La nascita della "metametafisica": Aristotele

• Autores: Enrico Berti
• Localización: Giornale di Metafisica: revista bimestrale di filosofia, ISSN 0017-0372, Vol. 41, Nº. 1, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Meta-metafisica? / coord. por Rosa Maria Lupo), págs. 17-31
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • Metametaphysics makes its first appearance in Aristotle’s Metaphysics, as a part of the discipline contained in this treatise. Occupying five books, this part is first of all an examination of the metaphysics which is implicit in the common sense with the name of “wisdom” (sophia). The result of this examination is Aristotle’s definition of “first philosophy” as the “science of the first causes or principles”. Afterwards metametaphysics is a discussion, made by Aristotle, of the metaphysics practised by first philosophers until Plato. Thirdly, metametaphysics is Aristole’s reflexion on the method of metaphysics and his discussion of the aporias concerning its unity. The solution of these aporias, proposed by Aristotle, is the distinction between two meanings of the object of metaphysics, i.e. being as being and its first causes. Finally metametaphysics is the explanation, offered by Aristotle, of the difference between metaphysics and other theoretical sciences, i.e. physics and mathematics.