Aristotle’s Metaphysics

Aristotle never wrote the word “metaphysics.” That word was coined by the librarians who were cataloguing his collected works. The prefix meta– simply meant “after,” and the metaphysics were the works that came after “the physics.” The physics were the works that dealt with things that you could perceive through the senses. So it would include all of the regular sciences.

In his work De Anima (on the soul), Aristotle pointed out that there are five senses, each perceived through a different organ of the body. We also have a “common sense” which enables us to integrate sense data to create images of things as they move and change (i.e., objects, space, and time).  Yet our common sense just creates a representation of objects, space, and time. The writings that are included in metaphysics deal with the problems that arise from our common sense: how the words and images that we use to represent reality relate to reality itself.

Here’s the text in English translation: Aristotle’s Metaphysics : Aristotle : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Here’s an explanation: Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

And here’s a simplified explanation: Aristotle – Metaphysics, Explained in Less Than 10 Minutes – @PhilAndSophia

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