Friday, July 4, 2014

Étienne Gilson: "Metaphysics"

METAPHYSICS is “the knowledge gathered by a naturally transcendent reason in its search for the first principles, or first causes, of what is given in sensible experience….As metaphysics aims at transcending all particular knowledge, no particular science is competent either to solve metaphysical problems, or to judge their metaphysical solutions.”

~Étienne Gilson: The Unity of Philosophical Experience.

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