Ontološke kategorije Aristotelove filozofije prirode
Ontological Categories of Aristotle’s Philosophy of Nature

Summary/Abstract: This introductory discussion gives a short overview of the basic system of ontological categories of Aristotle’s philosophy of nature. A conceptual determination of the philosophical knowledge about nature for the first time in the history of philosophx appeared in Aristotle’s Physics. According to it, physics is a theoretical philosophical science about inner principles of natural beings and their movements, and thus it is a second philosophy, which examines the Being of natural beings, or the metaphysics of nature. Natural science examines natural things, which are undividable from matter. However, this investigation is worthless if the way of existence of the Being and logos, as a conceptual determination of being, has remained hidden. Physics is the philosophy of natural sciences, the ontology of matter and kinetics, with ontological categories which are elements. Therefore, every sort of cognition of nature examines primarily bodies and magnitudes, their characteristics and forms, as well as the principles of this area of being.

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