Alethology as the First Philosophy
In the early, metaphysical, period, Shalva Nutsubidze focused his inquiry on the question of defining "truth". His alethological realism is nothing more than a search for this truth and for a path to God. Nutsubidze's first important work was "Bolzano and the Theory of Science", a long article that contained the fundamental ideas of his Principles of Alethology . Traditionally, metaphysics, as the First philosophy, dealt basically with the problem of Existence and Existent categories. According to Nutsubidze, philosophy is what shows man the way to the truth that stands above contradiction. A man must leave everything that is "human" and rise to the "suprahuman", higher than the being itself. This is the path to God, that is, the idea (thought) and the being merging into each other. All of Nutsubidze's research and his concept of alethology, the First philosophy, are directed towards this. Keywords: alethological realism; First philosophy; path to God; principles of Alethology; Shalva Nutsubidze