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1. www.britannica.com › topic › first-philosophyFirst philosophy | Britannica

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   In the early 20th century the term was adopted by the German founder of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, who called Wolff’s general metaphysics “formal ontology” and contrasted it with special “regional ontologies,” such as the ontologies of nature, mathematics, mind, culture, and religion.

2. plato.stanford.edu › entries › aristotle-metaphysicsAristotle’s Metaphysics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Oct 8, 2000 · Aristotle himself described his subject matter in a variety of ways: as ‘first philosophy’, or ‘the study of being qua being’, or ‘wisdom’, or ‘theology’. A comment on these descriptions will help to clarify Aristotle’s topic.

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   Jan 16, 2017 · In essence, when Aristotle worked in philosophy, he was always looking for ‘the first basis from which a thing is known’ or first principles. Here is how he describes it (via Terence Irwin...

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4. www.thecollector.com › emmanuel-levinas-ethicsWhy Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”

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   Aug 30, 2023 · First philosophy is about how beings and matter are caused, how they behave, and what principles govern their existence and interrelation. If there is anything else that can claim to be first philosophy, for Aristotle, it is theology, or the study of eternal and non-physical things.

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   The meaning of FIRST PHILOSOPHY is a study of being as being dealing with the fundamental type of being or substance upon which all others depend and with the most fundamental causes —distinguished from second philosophy.

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   A first principle is an axiom that cannot be deduced from any other within that system. The classic example is that of Euclid's Elements; its hundreds of geometric propositions can be deduced from a set of definitions, postulates, and common notions: all three types constitute first principles.

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   What is first philosophy?

   • This article was most recently revised and updated by Brian Duignan. Other articles where first philosophy is discussed: Aristotle: Physics and metaphysics of Aristotle: …metaphysics: he calls it “first philosophy” and defines it as the discipline that studies “being as being.”

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   What is first philosophy for Aristotle?

   • First philosophy is about how beings and matter are caused, how they behave, and what principles govern their existence and interrelation. If there is anything else that can claim to be first philosophy, for Aristotle, it is theology, or the study of eternal and non-physical things.

   Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”

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   What are first principles in philosophy?

   • In philosophy "first principles" are from first cause attitudes commonly referred to as a priori terms and arguments, which are contrasted to a posteriori terms, reasoning or arguments, in that the former are simply assumed and exist prior to the reasoning process and the latter are deduced or inferred after the initial reasoning process.

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   What did Aristotle think about first principles?

   • Despite his breadth of influence, every new thought he had started in the same place, with first principles. In essence, when Aristotle worked in philosophy, he was always looking for ‘the first basis from which a thing is known’ or first principles. Here is how he describes it (via Terence Irwin):

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   What was the first major work in the history of Philosophy?

   • The first major work in the history of philosophy to bear the title “Metaphysics” was the treatise by Aristotle that we have come to know by that name.

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   Is ethics the first philosophy?

   • The claim that ethics is the first philosophy at first seems like a mere statement of intention for Levinas’s philosophy, an indication that being will take a backseat to obligations. It is, on one view, hard to find in this claim any substantive content.

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8. www.oxfordreference.com › display › 10First philosophy - Oxford Reference

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   first philosophy. Quick Reference. In Aristotle's Metaphysics, the study of being, or being in itself. In Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the topics include scepticism, the existence of God, and the nature of the soul.