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Whereas Aristotle's first philosophy was the most difficult science to learn, metaphysics as the medieval first philosophy is the easiest of sciences, since it deals with the self-evident.
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Their first philosophy is to kill a Shiite".
Thus, first philosophy is both the science of being qua being and also theology.
It is unsurprising, then, that First Philosophy is the only lecture course that is consistently counted among his major works.
As we noted above, metaphysics (or, first philosophy) is the science which studies being qua being.
Of course, first philosophy is not the only field of inquiry to study beings.
Suffice it to say that first philosophy is responsibility that unfolds into dialogical sociality.
Since all philosophy is an inquiry into truth, first philosophy is the knowledge of God, who is "the first truth and the cause of all truth".
First, philosophy is given the task of organizing social research and providing its practical aims even in the absence of the justification of its superior capacities.
The prime and distinctive task of first philosophy is an inquiry into first entities; these, however, are not perceptible entities, and as a result they have to be investigated through a metaphysical investigation of physical entities.
That he conflates metaphysics with theology is clear from the opening of On First Philosophy, which says that since philosophy in general is the study of truth, "first philosophy" is "the knowledge of the first truth who is the cause of all truth".
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