St Augustine
The relation of Being and the Good in Aristotle
This paper is devoted to an analysis of thinking the entwining relation between being and the good in Aristotle. For Aristotle being is said in many ways. In Metaphysics he searches for the answer to ambiguity of being by pointing that different senses of being refer to primary kind of being, substance. It is the task of first philosophy to search for universal grounds. By delineating the question of being qua being, first philosophy as a kind of science, seeks for its own principles. The science which begins with that-it-is the knowledge is bound to perception. If all scientific knowing depends on knowledge of some set of first principles, the question is clearly how we know these first principles?
In Aristotle the search for the most fundamental principles of being qua being begins from sensible substance, however for him it is impossible to find the universal principles without a reference to non-sensible substance which by......
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