6/7/2023 0 Comments Aristotle and metaphysicsHowever, even Plato did not have a proper understanding of the proper dialectical tools evident from the world around us- his insistence that there are external, intrinsic forms is, in fact, problematic. The latter were closer to asking about the teleological end of matter, but this revolution does not happen fully until one gets to Plato and his Theory of Forms. Aristotle speaks briefly about those who thought that this was summed up in one element or the other- whether fire, water, air, etc,- or in the stoic monism of eternal mathematic concepts. Before Aristotle (as he relays in Book α), the philosophers had always been attempting to understand the constitutive “being” of reality- that is, the material cause of different substances (at least, according to Aristotle). The Metaphysics, first and foremost, should be seen as a shift in the ancient philosophical conversation from an investigation of material cause to an investigation of final cause. RELATED: Beginning Thoughts on the Trinity
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