The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics : A Study i

The problem of being is central to Western metaphysics. Etched sharply in the verses of Parmenides, it took on distinctive coloring in Aristotle as the subject matter of a science expressly labelled ´theological´. For Aristotle, being could not be shared in generic fashion by other natures. As a nature it have to be found not in various species but in a primary instance only. The science specified by the primary nature was accordingly the one science that under the aspect of being treated universally of whatever is : it dealt with being qua being.