SMC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Posterior Analytics, Al-Andalus, The Moons
18 Jan 2018
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Aristotle and allah: arabic philosophy meets the west. Metaphysics = the works that come after the physics. A work full of contradictions, inconsistency, represents different stages of development i(cid:374) aristotle"s thought that he (cid:449)as (cid:374)ot a(cid:271)le to (cid:272)o(cid:373)plete, or (cid:374)ot all te(cid:454)ts are a(cid:272)(cid:272)urate. When aristotle reached the ma, it created a separate discipline in philosophy, and it was described as the supreme study the climax of all other fields, because its subject is being. The ultimate study of being ens qua ens. Being is relative and depends on the categories (12), but the common denominator is being, which is a broad term. Being/ens is the ultimate object of intellectual contemplation; the fundamental object of intellect. Principium contradictionis law of contradiction basic principle of all principles = it is impossible for something to be at the same time a and not a / a thing and its opposite.
