DIALECTIC, DIAPORETIC AND POSITIVE KNOWLEDGE IN ARISTOTLES'S METAPHYSICS

The link between dialectics and first philosophy in Aristotle's Metaphysics is narrow, as it is showed by the important presence of dialectical procedures in this work, among which we find the historical review, the peirastic demonstration and the diaporetic method. The method of the first philosophy, nevertheless, cannot be identified by the dialectics: if we centre on the diaporetic procedure, there can be verified that the euporetic phase constitutes a not dialectical phase of the process, a phase that goes far beyond of the established for the properly dialectical procedure of the diaporetic development. It remains clear in the analysis of the diaporetic development and of the solutions tested by Aristotle about the eleventh and the fifteenth apories of book Beta.