Conspecto das principais interpretações da Metafísica de Aristóteles – dos primórdios a Paul Natorp e Eduard Zeller

Abstract

The  Metaphysics contains a number of formulas that supposedly refer to the science  which occupies the top of the hierarchy of philosophical disciplines. But there is great  disagreement among scholars over the possibility of effectively reconciling these  different formulas. Thus, one of the most important issues which the reader of the  Metaphysics has to deal with is to determine whether the work is concerned with a  single preeminent science or if it contains different projects of preeminent science. In  this paper we discuss the views of some of the most important interpreters, paying  particular attention to two authors from the German Aristotelian tradition: Eduard  Zeller and, specially, Paul Natorp.