Moore gives three definitions of the Good through which he hopes to restart the science of Ethics. The Good, however, is not so easily defined. First Moore must differentiate between the Good in a moral sense and the Good in the ontological sense. Read Article
A discussion of Porphyry's Isagoge and Aristotle's Categories. Porphyry discusses the priority among the predicables. Is this priority logical or ontological? Read Article
Thomas Aquinas examines pure forms in an attempt to distinguish the metaphysical principles of beings. He extrapolates that being and essence are distinct. Read Article
In the Timaeus, Plato addresses the principle on which our world was established, and its relationship to the Forms and to Beauty. Read Article
During his examination of geometrical figures, Descartes develops a new means of abstracting which goes beyond what others before him have done. Read Article
Kant gives a revised definition of truth that contains his own vocabulary and explores the possibility of general criterion of truth. Read Article
Martin Heidegger attempts to formulate a metaphysics within his existentialist system, using as his basis the relationship between time and being. Read Article
John Duns Scotus examines the two means of dividing being, into finite and infinite and into the ten genera, to discover what a transcendental is. Read Article
Aristotle explains in his Physics that good philosophy begins with the observation of physical objects, and ends with relating those objects to thought. Read Article