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| | Metaphysics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Metaphysics was divided into three parts, now regarded as the traditional branches of Western metaphysics, called (1) ontology, (2) theology and (3) universal science. | | | So there are some metaphysical questions to be answered about the notions of identity, or being the same thing over time, and change. | | | Hence, a metaphysical statement usually implies a belief about the world or about the universe which may seem reasonable but is ultimately not provable. |
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| | Metaphysics : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online |
| | Less obviously, metaphysical issues also intrude on the philosophy of language and logic, as happens when it is suggested that any satisfactory theory of meaning will have to posit the existence of intensional entities, or that any meaningful language will have to mirror the structure of the world (see Intensional entities; Logical atomism). | | | Two major historical tendencies in metaphysics have been idealism and materialism, the former presenting reality as ultimately mental or spiritual, the latter regarding it as wholly material (see Buddhism, Yogācāra school of; Idealism; Materialism; Materialism in the philosophy of mind; Monism, Indian; Phenomenalism). | | | Understood in terms of these two questions, metaphysics is very closely related to ontology, which is usually taken to involve both ‘what is existence (being)?’ and ‘what (fundamentally distinct) types of thing exist?’ (see Ontology). |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Metaphysics |
| | The condition of metaphysics is, indeed, such as to invite the contempt and provoke the disdain of the scientist; the fault, however, may lie not so much in the claims of metaphysics as in the vagaries of the metaphysicians. | | | Kant holds that both the empiricist's rejection of metaphysics and the dogmatist's defence of it are wrong. | | | It was, once more, the Alexandrian School of Christian metaphysics that, by elaborating the Biblical conception of creation ex nihilo, gave an explanation of the origin of the universe which is satisfactory to the metaphysician as well as to the theologian. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Metaphysics |
| | Among the medieval Scholastic philosophers, metaphysics was known as the “transphysical science” on the assumption that, by means of it, the scholar philosophically could make the transition from the physical world to a world beyond sense perception. | | | With the rise of scientific study in the 16th century the reconciliation of science and faith in God became an increasingly important problem. | | | Hence, the First Philosophy came to be known as meta (ta) physica, or “following (the) Physics,” later shortened to Metaphysics. |
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| | Metaphysics |
| | The metaphysics which replaced religion was not that which forms the core of science. | | | The framers of the U.S. Constitution failed to acknowledge freedom of metaphysics, or separation of metaphysics and state, because all common forms of metaphysics were forms of deism or religion. | | | The advancement of science and knowledge of reality, was used to displace the public acceptance of the metaphysical base given by religion. |
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| | Aristotle's Metaphysics |
| | The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics. | | | He does not seem to doubt that the clearest examples of substances are perceptible ones, but leaves open the question whether there are others as well. | | | Spellman, L. “Specimens of Natural Kinds and the Apparent Inconsistency of Metaphysics Ζ.” Ancient Philosophy 9: 49-65. |
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| | Spiritual Metaphysics |
| | Metaphysics, of course, is God’s realm, containing the secrets science has long sought but, for centuries, have remained entirely elusive. | | | There is only one way to determine the essence of metaphysics and that is the spiritual method. | | | It is the source of all metaphysical knowledge but only accessible to those worthy. |
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| | metaphysics on Encyclopedia.com |
| | METAPHYSICS [metaphysics], branch of philosophy concerned with the ultimate nature of existence. | | | It perpetuates the Metaphysics of Aristotle, a collection of treatises placed after the Physics [Gr. | | | Bibliography: See D. Hamlyn, Metaphysics (1984); B. Aune, Metaphysics (1985); D. Mellor, Matters of Metaphysics (1991). |
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| | College of Metaphysical Studies |
| | While metaphysics is practiced by many as a religion, it is basically an ethical belief system. | | | Unity, Religious Science and Science of the Mind are examples of metaphysical religions. | | | Our metaphysical search has taken us into every corner of the world, and of humanity's mind in order to find answers to the meaning of life and of our relationship to God. |
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| | Web Metaphysics |
| | Time affects reality, of course: according to our ancient metaphysics, the divine is the most real because it is eternal, while this world is “merely” one of ever-changing shadows. | | | Let’s stipulate that there is a formal correspondence between the hyperlinked metaphysics of the Web and the transcendental movement characteristic of spirit: both break out of simple boxes and only make sense insofar as they’re understood as already connected to something more than and beyond themselves. | | | And this is why its metaphysics is that of optimism and then hope. |
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| | Aristotle -- Metaphysics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | The Metaphysics is one of the most helpful books there is for contending with a question the asking of which is one of the things that makes us human. | | | All being is dependent on the being of things; among things, the artificial are derived from the natural; because there is a cosmos, all natural things have being as living things; because all living things depend on either a species-identity or an eternal locomotion, there must be a self-subsisting activity of thinking. | | | The fact that there are a Book 13 and a Book 14 to the Metaphysics indicates that, in Aristotle's view, the question of being has not yet undergone its last transformation. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aris-met.htm
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| | Immanuel Kant |
| | In Pure Land Buddhism, an important meditative practice is the visualization of the Pure Land of the Buddha Amitabha. | | | This might work on the basis of Spinoza's metaphysics, where my existence is God's existence, but God's knoweldge far transcends mine. | | | This, however, should be no more than what we would expect given the contradictory claims of mystical or dogmatic authorities in world religions. |
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| | Immanuel Kant -- Metaphysics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | It is impossible, Kant argues, to extend knowledge to the supersensible realm of speculative metaphysics. | | | Kant has rejected the dogmatic metaphysics of the Rationalists that promises supersensible knowledge. | | | The metaphysical facts about the ultimate nature of things in themselves must remain a mystery to us because of the spatiotemporal constraints on sensibility. |
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| | metaphysics |
| | Some defend their metaphysical beliefs by appealing to the consequences of belief, e.g., it gives hope for an afterlife or meaning to existence. | | | Others maintain that such considerations are irrelevant to the truth of the claims, and indicate the belief is based more on desire than good logical reasons. | | | Philosophers give various reasons for preferring one metaphysical belief to another. |
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| | All but a very few practitioners in Metaphysics today have a pivotal point of some sort of Spiritual Philosophy in whatever system or teaching of Metaphysics they are engaged. | | | This could be a wide range, such as yogis, mystics, astrologers, positive thinking teachers, meditation teachers, grapho-analysts, spiritual healers, self-help teachers, etc. The range is wide, but again the basic denominator is the search for truth, purpose and meaning in life, which cannot be isolated from basic spiritual questions. | | | In the definition found in most dictionaries, Metaphysics is referred to as a branch of Philosophy that deals with First Cause and the Nature of Being. |
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| | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Metaphysics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | The 'metaphysical' level is what is actually happening with monads (no causality, no space, no time at least as ordinarily understood, each monad spontaneously unfolding according to the kind of thing that it is). | | | 'Individual' metaphysical truths: truths about the properties of individual substances, where those properties follow indeed from the complete concept and thus are apparent to God, but do not follow any 'subordinate universal laws'. | | | Finally, for Leibniz, his idea of little perceptions gives a phenomenal (rather than metaphysical) account for the impossibility of real indiscernibles: there will always be differences in the petite perceptions of otherwise very similar monads. |
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| | Kant's Theocentric Metaphysics |
| | Since "a new philosophical cycle was to begin" [220] with Kant's thoroughgoing "rejection of metaphysics" [229], Gilson regards any of Kant's theories or statements which border on the metaphysical as superfluous nonessentials which he merely borrowed "from hearsay". | | | Critique he concludes that, "although metaphysics cannot be the foundation of religion, it must always continue to be a bulwark of it", and that a | | | Earlier still, in the preface to Kt1, Kant reveals the importance he placed on the consistency of his own ideas with religion when he stresses his confidence in the "harmony...between my system [of cosmogony] and religion" [222(82)]. |
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| | Amazon.com: The Metaphysics (Penguin Classics): Books: Aristotle,Hugh Lawson-Tancred |
| | Aristotle's "Metaphysics" is superb, no question about it. | | | Always passionately interested in natural phenomena, Aristotle eventually dissented from Plato's idealist premise that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of the true reality. | | | An extraordinary synthesis, integrating the natural and rational aspects of the world, Aristotle's Metaphysics probes some of the deepest questions of philosophy: What is existence? |
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| | Metaphysics: Multiple Meanings |
| | Some of the varying understandings of metaphysics held by some founders of New Thought and Christian Science are given in the opening pages of Contrasting Strains of Metaphysical Idealism Contributing to New Thought. | | | Something of a halfway house is the academically-oriented Society for the Study of Metaphysical Religion, which has directed its attention to popular metaphysics, especially as found in the New Thought movement. | | | There is a great deal of material dealing with popular metaphysics, especially with regard to New Age and related outlooks at Virtual Library of Spirituality and Consciousness |
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| | Descartes' Modal Metaphysics |
| | It is irrelevant that the decrees could have been separated from God; indeed, this should not really be asserted. | | | The analytic style of writing that I adopted there [in the Meditations] allows us from time to time to make certain assumptions that have not yet been thoroughly examined; and this comes out in the First Meditation where I made many assumptions which I proceeded to refute in subsequent Meditations. | | | Presumably, Descartes is just invoking his Fourth Meditation rule for judging in these passages. |
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| | Emergence |
| | Such non-locality is yet another blow to an assumption of a strict particle, thus strictly local, metaphysics. | | | That would seem to be a reductio ad absurdum of that position. | | | Minds cannot be "merely" epiphenomenal unless everything is taken to be epiphenomenal |
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| | Metaphysics |
| | Used in this context, Metaphysics incorporates Religion, Non-materialistic Philosophical speculation, Mysticism, and Esotericism, and even fantasy, mythology, and imagined worlds. | | | In a more precise context however, Metaphysics means literally "after (not "beyond") physics". | | | Metaphysics can be divided into various secondary fields of inquiry, such as the relationship between mind or spirit and body (the "mind-body problem"), the problem of free will and determinism, the nature of God (Theology), of man, and of the universe (Cosmology), the nature of Being (Ontology), and so on. |
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| | Technorati Tag: metaphysics |
| | Metaphysical Tapes and CDs Spiritual and enlightenment teachings, psychic training, classes, meditations, tapes, and CDs. | | | Posts tagged Metaphysics per day for the last 30 days. | | | There is no general information about the nature of mind. |
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| | METAPHYSICS |
| | "What matters is that you believed, and you are here safe, now." "I heard about the white elephant story from other metaphysical scientists. | | | HUMMINGBIRD N COMPANY is a Conglomerate devoted to sharing all aspects of Metaphysical information provided by the SOURCE as well as a lot of OTHER GUYS! | | | It seems to me that you must submit your experience about the mystical white elephant." |
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| | Spiritual Metaphysics |
| | There are now over 2000 metaphysical and spiritual terms to look up. | | | Share your healing energies with those who need your support or send a prayer request. | | | Hosting and design services at a premium for like-minded sites. |
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| | Metaphysics, study of idealism, dualism, materialism, evil, cosmological, ontological argument, god, mind, body |
| | The word "metaphysics" comes from the root words "meta" meaning beyond and "physics" meaning the physical world. | | | Metaphysics, study of idealism, dualism, materialism, evil, cosmological, ontological argument, god, mind, body | | | If God is all powerful and all good then there would be no evil in the world. |
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| | Metaphysics |
| | But we cannot answer this question without first understanding what is the meaning of metaphysics, if any, and in what respect metaphysics differs from science, which tries to answer similar questions but through more concrete methods. | | | Metaphysics is traditionally subdivided in ontology, the theory of being in itself, and cosmology, the theory describing the origin and structure of the universe. | | | In a traditional systems philosophy "organization" might be seen as the fundamental principle of being, rather than God, matter, or the laws of nature. |
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| | metaphysics -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | In his emphasis on variety and differentiation, Spencer was unwittingly repeating, in a 19th-century idiom, the metaphysics of liberalism that Spinoza and Leibniz had adumbrated in the 17th century. | | | Metaphysics, a Greek word meaning “what comes after physics,” was the title given to a book written by Aristotle after he had completed his book Physics. | | | Spinoza had maintained that “God or Nature” has an infinity of attributes in which every possibility is actualized, and Leibniz had argued that the perfection of God is... |
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| | Metaphysics |
| | It answers the question "What is?" It encompasses everything that exists, as well as the nature of existence itself. | | | Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy responsible for the study of existence. | | | It has a specific nature and it must be consistent to that nature. |
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| | EpistemeLinks: Website results for Metaphysics |
| | Description: briefly explains the difference between traditional academic "metaphysics" and the new age "metaphysics" that centers on mysticism and the occult. | | | Metaphysics (from the Greek meta meaning after/beyond, and physics meaning nature) is a core branch of philosophy concerned with the study of "first principles" and "being" (ontology). | | | In modern times, the meaning of the word "metaphysics" has become confused with new-age mysticism and occultism that are unrelated to metaphysics as the formal study of first principles and being. |
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| | Philosophical Dictionary: Mesos-Misericordiam |
| | Questions about the existence and nature of minds, bodies, god, space, time, causality, unity, identity, and the world are all metaphysical issues. | | | Strawson calls the former activity revisionary, and the latter descriptive, metaphysics. | | | From Plato onwards, many philosophers have tried to determine what kinds of things (and how many of each) exist. |
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| | Crank Dot Net metaphysics |
| | You will not find here any 'critiques of pure reason' or any metaphysical buzzwords like 'ontological' or 'non-deterministic'. | | | I believe that if metaphysical concepts are too abstruse, they are worthless. | | | "The California Institute of Omniology holds as fact that all theories of Origins, lacking empirical verification, are metaphysical and religious in nature. |
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| | American Institute of Holistic Theology |
| | Metaphysics holds that the soul or spirit and the physical body are one yet separate; here the applied psychology of religion comes to bear. | | | Because the metaphysician or doctor of metaphysics can serve as a psychological counselor as well as a source of spiritual comfort, he or she espouses universal spirituality through holistic health. | | | Metaphysics is the science which investigates first causes of all existence and knowledge. |
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| | Metaphysics, introduction |
| | In a traditional systemic philosophy, "organization" might be seen as the fundamental principle of being, rather than God, matter, or the laws of nature. | | | The word "metaphysics" is said to originate from the mere fact that the corresponding part of Aristotle's work was positioned right after the part called "physics". | | | Philosophies traditionally start with an ontology or metaphysics: a theory of being in itself, of the essence of things, of the fundamental principles of existence and reality. |
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| | SOSIG: Metaphysics |
| | Aristotle: Metaphysics Books B and K 1-2 translated with a commentary by Arthur Madigan (book extract) | | | Metaphysics of Theism by Norman Kretzmann (book extract) | | | Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant |
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| | Open Directory - Society: Philosophy: Metaphysics |
| | University of Sheffield: Naive Metaphysics - Details of the book by Geoffrey Klempner, including tw extracts: the preface, explaining the unusual circumstances and goals of the author, and the first chapter, consisting of a long meditation on two problems of existence. | | | Stephen Palmquist answering the question, "Was Kant the destroyer of Metaphysics?" | | | Philosophical Apologetic - A philosophical apologetic, or argument from pure reason in answer to Immanuel Kant's challenge. |
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| | Metaphysics at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base |
| | This document is an essay which proves that naturalism and metaphysical philosophy can coexist peacefully in the modern mind. | | | This easy-to-use site presents a well written ecological thesis which unites naturalism with metaphysics. | | | Dialogues between naturalists and metaphysical philosophers can be contentious; and we, being audience to the ensuing disagreements, are led to believe that a fundamental dichotomy separates the naturalistic and metaphysical disciplines - or worse, to believe that one discipline can prosper only at the expense of the other. |
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| | Modern Theosophy: Metaphysics |
| | Though called metaphysics, the articles here point to a philosophy that points to a truth that is beyond words, or thought, or philosophy. | | | Ultimately no words, no thoughts, no philosophy can give the truth as much as seeing things as they are can. | | | At a Loss for Words, Anthony de Mello, SJ Metaphysics is the philosophy of that which is beyond thought. |
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| | BUBL LINK: Metaphysics |
| | Introduces the subject of metaphysics, a branch of philosophy dedicated to answering the question, 'What is the nature of reality?'. | | | A bibliography of works by women in aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics and history of philosophy. | | | Fully searchable version of Aristotle's Metaphysics separated into fourteen books. |
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| | The Internet Classics Archive Metaphysics by Aristotle |
| | Commentary: Many comments have been posted about Metaphysics. | | | Metaphysics has been divided into the following sections: | | | Recommend a Web site you feel is appropriate to this work, |
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| | Metaphysics by Aristotle |
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| | The Metaphysics Of Performance: The "Theatre Of The World" | | | Metaphysical Premises And Types Of Liberal Ideology: Liberalism As The End And Liberalism As The Way |
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