Le denominazioni della Metafisica e della sua scienza nella filosofia tardoantica
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2012
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Instytutu Filozofii UAM
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In late antiquity, in the context of the jagged tradition of Neo-Platonism,
Aristotle’s Metaphysics and the specific science that is traced out in it
are indicated with the current denominations of meta ta physika and
theologikē pragmateia, which are seen as consistent with one another
and closely interconnected. In this connection, the Metaphysics, in the
wake of previous philosophical readings, is considered as a treatise on
“theological science” — the most elevated among the sciences — and the
denomination meta ta physika is seen in a specifically theological sense.
According to a widespread Neo-Platonic reading, the science thematized
in the Metaphysics is “metaphysics” in that it is theological science,
an epistemic discourse on divine realities, which, within the ordo rerum,
transcend the physical ones, and, therefore, according to the ordo cognoscendi,
must be studied after the latter.
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Aristotle, Metaphysics
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Peitho. Examina Antiqua, nr 1(3), 2012, s. 51-82.