>Metaphysics is the study of the most elementary features of reality, including existence, objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind. It is one of the oldest branches of philosophy.>Philosophers engaged in metaphysics are called metaphysicians or metaphysicists.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaphysics/
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Hegel was retarded. That is all.
>>25161966Are there any practitioners of metaphysics who blend these together:>Ontology realist, teleological, theistic>Epistemology mediated, historically conditioned>Anthropology fallen, will-driven, meaning-seeking>History contingent, agent-driven, ideologically structured
All you need really
>>25161966Why is the most influential epistemologist of our era so underdiscussed? Is Strauss truly a SECRET gatekept from p-zombies by classified palantir technology?
midwit, the thread
>>25162288start with the greeks
>>25161966>>25161989what even separates analytic metaphysics from its continental counterpart?
>>25162801Empirical Materialism vs Rationalist Idealism I think, but I may be oversimplifying
>>25161966Not sure why anyone does metaphysics after him.
>>25162267scrap the math textbooks
>>25162806okay. whats the best texts that explain act and potency in plain English?
>>25164143oh and btw, I looked through some of Edward Feser's works and a lot of seems loaded with jargon. I mean I get the basic idea. like how a tree can become something through use or the idea of flowers growing to adulthood and stuff like that.
>>25161966Has any /lit/izen taken up the reading of the greatest French metaphysician of the 17th century (Malebranche)What does /lit/ think of him? I read some of the Search After Truth some months ago, and found that he's actually much more penetrating than as just "the philosopher of occasionalism" that the British empiricists commented on. The Entretiens sur la metaphysique also appear significant and have been subsequently important in France, commented by Merleau-Ponty just to name one. He also quotes Augustine every other page in the middle of the Age of Reason, which elevates his work deeply in my eyes
