PHIL343 Lecture Notes - Immanuel Kant, Ontotheology, Continental Philosophy
7 Mar 2014
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It must be an object beyond the senses. Metaphysics means beyond natural science, beyond natural things (meta ta phusika), it means beyond physics (trans physicam). Some have held that this name is unsuitable and believed that aristotle named it such because it followed the physics in his convolutes. [but] meta here means not after but beyond and this designation is most tting and appears to have been carefully thought out by aristotle. It is the science of things which go out beyond all appearances, what lies beyond nature. Ontology gave the logos (systematic theory) of ontos (being as being). But the other part of this was the science of the first/highest. Being, to ontos on, the most beingly of being that being which had being to the fullest extent. Theology. so metaphysics was composed of ontology and theology. In the case of kant we have to see how these two aspects of metaphysics works together.
