Metaphysics is the Philosophical study whose object is to determine the real nature of things – to determine the meaning, structure, and principles of whatever is insofar as it is. In Aristotle’s Metaphysics, the key concepts are substance, form and matter, potentiality and actuality, and cause. Aristotle develops what he called the science of first philosophy. These causes and principles are clearly the subject matter of what he calls ‘first philosophy’. But this does not …showed first 75 words of 1548 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1548 total…unconscious principle of motion and immanent form of the world, the Unmoved Mover , became, especially at the hands of Aquinas in the thirteenth century, the philosophical description of the God of Christianity. Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover could be said to be pure understanding, pure nous. Such a “God” is not the religious God who becomes involved in the affairs of man. Aristotle’s “God” is immanent in the world, making the world an intelligible order.