Philosophia
Natural philosophy, moral philosophy and metaphysics, each a reading in the writers’ own words
Philosophy here means the old fields of the subject: the study of nature, of how to live, and of being. Each page is an orientation, a set of key terms read in the texts that first used them. It is not a course and has no required order. Logic belongs to the liberal arts.
The fields nature, conduct, being
Natural philosophyPhilosophia naturalisWhat nature is, the kinds of cause, the order of the heavens, and the methods by which nature has been studied.Moral philosophyPhilosophia moralisThe good for human beings, the virtues, justice and the city.MetaphysicsMetaphysicaBeing as being, substance, the one and the many, and the first causes.