This research is the partial and provisional result of confronting the question of the relation between philosophy and Violence: encompassed by this horizon, a history of the Abstraction-Matter Hierarchy within the history of western philosophy was sketched, focussing on Greek Antiquity and on Modernity. Having outlined the current perspective with the concepts of Abstraction, Matter and Abstraction-Matter Hierarchy, a broad survey and subsequent analysis of well known and agreed-upon aspects of several authors whose works can be considered philosophical was carried out. Such exploratory path in search of connections between the philosophers had Heraclitus at its beginning, followed by Parmenides, Zeno, Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Adorno and Horkheimer, with its main theoretical and thematic references at the first and final steps. Through it, the question of the places given to the concept of reason and to the notion of Difference in this history also emerged as central to handling the relation between Abstraction and Matter.