A Preface to Metaphysics: Seven Lectures on Being

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A Preface to Metaphysics: Seven Lectures on Being by Jacques Maritain is a concise but demanding introduction to the reality, subject, essential considerations, principles, and causes which are rightly studied in a metaphysical inquiry. Written from a Thomistic standpoint, the work argues that metaphysics is neither an obsolete speculation nor a merely linguistic exercise, but the highest natural science of being as being. Maritain guides the reader through the conditions that make metaphysics possible, distinguishing it from the empirical sciences while showing its grounding in intellectual experience and judgment. The book serves both as a defense of classical metaphysics against modern skepticism and as a primer in the habits of thought required for genuine philosophical wisdom. It is especially suited to readers seeking a rigorous entry into Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy and the first principles underlying all knowledge.

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