Our nihilistic age denies truth itself, which we are naturally ordered to know.
While Aristotle was hardly the first to stumble upon the fact that all human beings desire to know, he was certainly the first to give it formal expression, which he did in Metaphysics, his important treatise on First Philosophy, written some four centuries before the coming of Christ. He was a very bright fellow. Why else would he have spent twenty years steeped in the study of philosophy…
