Form As Principles: The Discrepancy Between The Real And The Intelligible In Aristotle’s First Philosophy

The main problem of this paper relies on if form, in the First Philosophy of Aristotle, is universal or individual. In Book B of Metaphysics, the problem is presented in a more original way: whether the principles are universal or like individual things?Starting from this questioning, the problem mentioned above has achieved an initial description and the inner identification of “principles”, “substance” and “form” in Aristotle’s First Philosophy has been proved in the Introduction of this paper. In chapter 1 by the analysis on the various texts of Aristotle, the pursuit of the though contradictory coexistence of the pair of university and individuality is revealed. And the contradiction of this pair in the First Philosophy of Aristotle is also declared in this chapter: on one hand form as principles of being defined as individual by Aristotle, on the other hand as principles of knowledge functioning in a universal way, it turns out to be the so called “discrepancy of the Intelligible and the Real” in the First Philosophy. To understand this discrepancy by proof of Aristotle’s First Philosophy as unity of ontology and theology, it is to be found in chapter 2 that being as form is a special way of being while because of the primacy of the being way of form university is guaranteed, though form is individual.