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- Please explain to a beginner: what is metaphysics?
7 Metaphysics is the title of a collection of lectures by Aristotle The name is not by Aristotle but due to a later librarian who edited all scriptures of Aristotle The librarian arranged the scripts in question behind Aristotle's scripts on physics which in Greek means meta ta physica
- What is the difference between metaphysics and ontology?
Metaphysics is a very broad field, and metaphysicians attempt to answer questions about how the world is Ontology is a related sub-field, partially within metaphysics, that answers questions of what things exist in the world An ontology posits which entities exist in the world
- What is the nature of reality? Metaphysics: so the answer will explain . . .
4 Metaphysics is supposed to answer the question "What is the nature of reality?" Reality is by definition all that there is, so nature is part of it presuming it exists, if so then there cannot be a nature of reality
- Newest metaphysics Questions - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the essence of things, of the fundamental nature of being and the world and the principles that organize the universe
- What is metaphysics? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
See Metaphysics: the science of being (according to Aristotle and his tradition) vs the inquiry about the fundamental problems of reality: Space and Time, Causation, Freedom and Determinism, the Mental and Physical (according to modern views) In both case, it is not theology (the "science of God")
- metaphysics - Distinction between essence,substance, being . . .
Existence: I've never really seen this defined, and contemporary analytic metaphysics tends to make no distinction between existing and being The Meinongians famously distinguished between different kinds of being, where some things with being might not exist
- metaphysics - Is there not a muddy overlap between the great . . .
However, by the late 19th and early 20th centuries 'metaphysics' had gained a colloquial meaning of 'grand theory': sophisticated, abstract, and speculative, but detached from reality The idealism of someone like Hegel did not resonate in a world of rampaging industrial destruction, total war, and other forms of wholesale brutality
- metaphysics - Fatalism vs Determinism vs Free-Will - Philosophy Stack . . .
I understand that this is a bit simplistic, and would require a broad survey of at least Physics, Metaphysics, and Math to really fully motivate Either way, doesn’t debate about free will have more to do with Fatalism than Determinism?
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