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The science we are seeking. (Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle's 'Metaphysics')
From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 19930901
Author:McInerny, Ralph
Thomas Aquinas's proemium to his commentary on Aristotle's 'Metaphysics' illustrates the elusiveness of the subject of metaphysics. Aristotle's 'Metaphysics' is tentative because he is creating a new language to describe being as apart from natural being, an inquiry that arose out of the study of natural philosophy. For example, Aristotle's study of natural philosophy led to the awareness that there must be an unmoved mover existing apart from matter. Aquinas finds that metaphysics is concerned with the most intelligible things: first causes, the highest universals and the things most ...
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