De la filosofía a la meta-física

Abstract

The writer attempts to prove, supported by Greek texts, that the word philosophy did not mean even in Plato writings, just love for unselfish truth knowledge but that it had a practical hue: moral and political. In turn the name metaphysics, used to designate the most important philosophy discipline and for the 14 book series written by Aristotle, did not only came from this latter but it also –as Greek expression- was always separated: ta meta ta physicá, and it was joined just as far as the Latin tradition. Anciently its meaning had diverse interpretations and certainly it was not a fortuitous name.