metaphysic

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• At least when it comes to satisfying existential anxiety, value and meaning can come without a commitment to supernatural metaphysics and magic.

• This is likely a reference to Ontology, a branch of philosophy that deals with metaphysics and the nature of being—which is all rather on brand for The Matrix.

• Descartes opposed any effort to separate metaphysics from science.

• When he says he lives in harmony with nature, he’s not talking so much about metaphysics but sound ecological principles that propel his business and preserve the land.

• Physicists draw on metaphysics all the time, yet few of them are aware of what they do.

• The philosophy of Germany at the present day is making several attempts at a metaphysic of the universe.

• But these three systems have not, except in a secondary way, attempted a metaphysic of human life.

• And it is in this work that Eucken's Metaphysic of Life becomes a religious metaphysic.

• The new religious metaphysic will then mean a real philosophy of values.

• This, that physic inquires concerning the material and efficient causes, but metaphysic handles the formal and final causes.