Metaphysics

Dialectic is the supreme science, grasping the Forms and ascending to the Good, the ground of all being and knowing.

First philosophy studies being as being and its essential attributes; it is the science of the causes and principles of what is.

Metaphysics is the soul's ascent beyond being to the One, the principle that transcends all determination.

Metaphysics studies being as being; sacred theology studies God through revelation; the two sciences complement each other without conflict.

Metaphysics must be refounded on the certainty of the thinking subject; the Cogito replaces being as the first principle of philosophy.

There is only one substance, God or Nature, and all particular things are its modes; metaphysics is the geometrical science of this single reality.

Metaphysical substance is a 'something I know not what' behind qualities; the discipline overreaches when it claims knowledge beyond experience.

Metaphysics as a science of supersensible reality is impossible; but a critique of reason can determine what we can and cannot know a priori.

Metaphysics is not a frozen catalogue of categories but the self-developing movement of the Concept; logic and ontology are one.