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Augustine on the Latin term *essentia* “Essentia is a new word, indeed, which was not used in the Latin speech of old, but which has come...

Plato
Thematic Outline of Plato’s Republic
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Dionysius
Who was Dionysius the Areopagite?
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Bertrand Russell’s Outline of Plato’s Republic
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Aristotle
Aristotle’s Ten Categories
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Welcome to the Philosophy of Being

Aristotle called the philosophy of being "first philosophy" because it does not examine the parts of reality (politics, math, music, history), but reality itself: existence, change, properties, space, time, causality, and possibility. This first philosophy is also called "metaphysics," deriving from the Greek words meta ("beyond") and physica ("physical").

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