In the first instance, in terms internal to his own metaphysical schema, Metaphysics Lambda seems to answer the demand for an inquiry into immaterial substance set by Aristotle in the difficult middle books of the Metaphysics, an inquiry evidently held to be necessary for the proper understanding of such familiar sensible substances as human beings ( Meta. 37-65, 540-574).The twelfth book of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Metaphysics Lambda, is in several respects crucial to our understanding not only of Aristotle’s entire metaphysical system but of central developments in the subsequent history of metaphysical theology taken as a whole. Natorp, “Thema und der Disposition aristotelischen Metaphysik”, Philosophical Monatshefte, 24, 1888, pp. Natorp observes that the most significant among these interpolations concerns the whole book K, which, according to the scholar, should lead to expunge the work of Aristotle (cf.
On the contrary, this reading should be considered as the result of the interpolations made in the text by one of the compilers of the Metaphysics. As a matter of fact, Aristotle genuine conception about the structure and meaning of metaphysics is that the πρώτη φιλοσοφία must also deal with the unmovable and immaterial being, but not only with it.
For Natorp, since the ὂν ἁνλῶς or ᾗ ὄν and the ὄν τι καὶ γένος τι are opposite entities, and since the one excludes the other, a science dealing with being in general is superior to all those sciences treating a particular field of being and cannot be identified with any of them, not even with the most important one. The most important stance in this regard is that of P. Natorp, who, in the famous essay of 1888 Über Aristoteles’ Metaphysics 1-8 K, 1065 a 26, recovering and studying in the light of the Neokantian philosophical perspective some observations of the leading scholars of Aristotle, such as V. Rose, L. Spengel, F. Überweg and W. Christ, tried to demonstrate its inauthenticity. In the modern age, the particular fact that qualifies book K of Aristotle’s Metaphysics as the only text in which the object of the science of being qua being is identified with the object of theology made the scholars to doubt its authenticity.
Aristotle, metaphysics, book Kappa, Natorp, Neokantism, Grundphilosophie, first philosophy, being qua being, theology, god Abstract
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