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Why does a science about “Being as being” occupy the position of the “First Philosophy?” Three reasons are in order. At the beginning,the concern is not that Being as being is perceived as the divine,but that the possibility of speaking and thinking must be re-established after the Heraclitic shock. Later on,philosophers realized that there might be different kinds of “beings” and some of them are more essential than the other. However,Aristotle’s profound move is to finally locate this essentiality in particular “activities” of things. Thus,a system of “activities” has organized everything in an ontological cosmos and makes them meaningful than merely “subsisting.”
At the beginning, the concern is not that Being as being is perceived as the divine, but that the possibility of speaking and thinking must be re-established after the Heraclitic shock. Later on, philosophers realized that there might might different the kinds of “beings ” and some of them are more essential than the other. However, Aristotle’s profound move is to finally locate this essentiality in particular “activities ” of things. Thus, a system of “activities ” has organized everything in an ontological cosmos and makes them meaningful than merely “subsisting. ”