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Who originated the term metaphysics? Nd what is goethic culture?startd in which cen?
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Metaphysics is a traditional branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world that encompasses it, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms
Goth Culture is a culture where a group of people feel comfortable with each other's company. There is no particular thing that defines what one needs to do or be in order to fit into the goth scene. People in the goth scene follow different religions, all have different musical tastes, occupations, fashion sense, and hobbies. It started in Western Europe and was was popular from the 12th to the 16th century. I hope that will resolve your query.
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Chroust mentions that both Nicholas of Damascus (flourished 2nd half of the first century B.C.) and the illustrious historian Plutarch (c. 45-c. 120 A.D.) utilized the term “metaphysics” to describe Aristotle’s fourteen books of first philosophy. Then, Chroust lists Alexander of Aphrodisias’ Commentary to Aristotle’s Metaphysics, written around 200 A.D., where we find Alexander explaining that the Stagirite himself described his books on first philosophy as “metaphysics,” for as regards our noetical process this subject matter comes after the physics (it belongs to a higher level of abstraction). Another source that Chroust gives us is the Commentary of Asclepius (6th century A.D.), which is, to a great extent, reliant on Alexander. In his commentary, Asclepius says that Aristotle himself called his work “metaphysics,” for it systematically follows the books of the Physics. Chroust goes on to maintain, along with Asclepius, that the term “metaphysics,” “to be sure, may have had its origin in the sequence of the Aristotelian works, but this sequence is by no means an external or accidental ‘order of shelving’ – an incident in the techniques used by librarians. It is rather a deliberate and necessary sequence that is decisively determined by the ‘order’ – the ‘prior’ or ‘posterior’ – of our noetic process. And this noetic process reverses the natural process or order. This fact, according to Asclepius, determines the didactic sequence which definitely calls for a Physics-Metaphysics sequence. Aristotle himself, Asclepius concludes, has planned this vital sequence. Hence the ‘order of shelving’ merely follows the ‘topical order.’ Chroust believes that the term “first philosophy” that the Stagirite utilized to describe metaphysics expresses that which is first in the order of nature, while the term “metaphysics” proceeding in a reverse order, expresses that which is last “according to us,” that is, according to our cognitive processes. Chroust then proceeds to give us a fourth source: Themistius (4th century A.D.), in his Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, also states that “as far as we are concerned, the Metaphysics comes after the Physics, but according to nature the order or sequence is reversed. That which is prior is prior in a dual sense. First in relation to us, and, secondly, in relation to nature. In relation to us that is prior which is better known to us and which we understand more readily…In relation to nature that is prior which according to its substance is the more simple (or uniform)…and, hence, the order is reversed here. Because in discursive reasoning we proceed from the composite to the simple or uniform which, according to nature, is the prior.” Chroust also mentions a fifth source: an anonymous scholion to the Metaphysics which reads that “the title metaphysics is derived not from the nature of the subject but rather from the order in which it should be read (or studied), because it [the Metaphysics] contains the first principles of physics.” Source
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