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The one and only meaningful definition, and why traditional academic philosophy is unlikely ever to embrace it Peter Eastman [London, 2017] Metaphysics is the quest to find the ultimate meaning and purpose of existence.
Jan 11, 2001 · Challenges to Metaphysical Realism. First published Thu Jan 11, 2001; substantive revision Mon Jan 25, 2021. According to metaphysical realism, the world is as it is independent of how humans or other inquiring agents take it to be. The objects the world contains, together with their properties and the relations they enter into, fix the world ...
Metaphysics is taken by Thomas Aquinas to be the study of being qua being, that is, a study of the most fundamental aspects of being that constitute a being and without which it could not be. Aquinas’s metaphysical thought follows a modified but general Aristotelian view. Primarily, for Aquinas, a thing cannot be unless it possesses an act of ...
This is explainable by the fact that in African Metaphysics, empiricism merges with rationalism based on its operational ontology of “duality” or “complementarity of reality,” which is anchored on the dualistic but integrative cosmology of the African. In this case, the epistemological task fuses into metaphysics.
Metaphysical questions tend not to be resting points but starting points. This chapter begins to explore many simple yet interrelated questions as part of seeking the real. Figure 6.2 The term metaphysics comes from Aristotle’s book of the same name. The opening sentence translates as “All men by nature desire to know.”.
Oct 26, 2015 · The only way to know what contemporary metaphysics is about is to understand the relevant texts, issues, and figures. Hence this article, which presents important and influential background readings in the various subareas of metaphysics. These “areas” of metaphysics (like the various “areas” of philosophy) are deeply interconnected, to ...
Aristotle marks the center and turning point of the Metaphysics with these words: “One must inquire about (form), for this is the greatest impasse. Now it is agreed that some of what is perceptible are things, and so one must search first among these. For it is preferable to proceed toward what is better known.
