Do you think that Metaphysics is dead?

Question

Do you think Metaphysics is dead? That it does not work? That it's a game or a worthless activity in pursuit of nothing?

And also - do you think that philosophy is near its end like what the Deconstruction theorists believe? Do you think philosophy is a useless tool - a game?

Many Thanks

Answer 1

it will likely never die, humans will always hang on to irrational beliefs

Answer 2

Metaphysics is resolved would be a better phrase, a dead issue maybe.

It is the study of what is true reality. Hardly a game, philosophy is the quest/ions for and about the most basic nature of consciousness.

As it turns out this story necessarily brings up the nature of existence as well.

For consciousness is existence that is aware of itself.

Philosophy in its purest form is the objective study of ones own consciousness, as a practice its practical worth is almost beyond measure if we look at human history, for science is born of philosophy.

Deconstruction sounds like a very persistent form of nihilism and being that matter has become conscious as it is expressed as a process ontological form as an individual's mind, that would mean nihilism is completely subjective with regards to its core tenets.

Answer 3

No thanks to your worthless request for information.

Yaoi-Rand is an example of posture usurping the predicate: posing presuming the rightful abode of thinking.

Deconstruction theorists have an uncanny similarity to the professional teachers of rhetoric who enjoyed the safety of protection that Socrates refused. To be a pure thinker is to be (to exist in the purest sense) independent from the interests associated with the theological-political and economic spheres. Radical doubt carries the thinker well beyond topical exhibition (a craft highly valued and rewarded in the aforementioned spheres) into a fateful conjunction with Being. Conventional doubt, however, is more akin to the disputation of interest-opinion, the ubiquitous symptom of competition for power and resources. Yahoo Answers, then, is an attempt, a hyper-conventional attempt, to gather "knowledge" from its participants, to be "all seeing", for its own hidden, but sanctioned, purposes. It is not surprising in the least that the techniques of the deconstructionists are of interest to Yahoo Answers.

Perhaps Yaoi-Rand is destined for a nervous breakdown...it could bring his tiresome posturing to a fitting end. As for metaphysics, "Marc Hector", you are not thinking.

Answer 4

No, but thanks.  It does seem to work for the peoples that believe in it, or in other words it takes two coincidences to create a connection of a causal nature, and hence a body of belief.  But there are some would refuse to reveal their sources to nonbelievers, i.e. anyone they don't know to say squash to, for any number of reasons

Answer 5

This seems to imply that all the metaphysical and philosophical knowledge, including some scientific Truths accumulated all these past millenia, is 'dead', or 'not workable'. Do we say that all this while, the great philosophers since ancient Greece have taken Mankind for a ride on Logic, Reason, and metaphysical Truths,and  that have neither value, nor  had  contributed to advances in mathematics or the sciences? I dont think so.

Answer 6

Metaphysics is not dead.  What makes you think it "doesn't work"?  What are you trying to get it to do?  

'Natural Philosophy' became science which became specialized into various fields.  Einstein didn't believe in Quantum Physics.  Science only "believes in" that which can be measured.  Metaphysics has to do with stuff science can't measure yet.  Slowly the gaps are being filled.  Wasn't too long ago that "radio waves" were discovered and measured.  Now it's "dark matter" and "dark energy".  Lots of stuff going on in the "spiritual" realm science can't measure yet so does not accept.  Everyone believed in "ether" until Einstein's relativity made it unnecessary.  But it's there.

Neither is Philosophy dead.  Philosophy has to do with the "why" part of things.  So does Metaphysics, to a degree.

Answer 7

My Friend, nothing dies but changes form. Metaphysics will change form i.e. it will become better and more refined in  the coming days and time. If it living in The Now, then it will remain in the Now Forever, because Now is Eternal!

Answer 8

I think that like Science, Metaphysics have some objects or subjects, some issues with which they occupy themselves. So, to say that Metaphysics is dead is like saying that they do not have any subject of occupation at all anymore or the tools they are using, the explanations they give, are not valid. This perspective would justify your comment about Deconstructionism but it is a matter of fact that deconstruction does not mean that something is ruined but has changed form. Its parts have been into different places in a whole that preserves its unity. Game theory tries to make predictions by dividing its objects in to the simplest parts they can be so as a system or if you wish a table of vertical and horizontal linguistic scheme e.g. we have a multiple choices of reading the propositions by "playing with the words".

So, by all means, I think from Metaphysics to Deconstructionism and Linguistics I think there is nothing dead.

Answer 9

Metaphysics is not conjecture, as Kant and so many have made it out to be. It isn't mystical. It is conceptual, as the Stoics and Occam and Rand knew.

Metaphysics is the identification of genera and differentia, ala Aristotle. It is more like science.

The idea you are referring to is the application of those identities to the problems of life.

Well, of course, if you think metaphysics is mystical, then you discount mysticism, you will think it is worthless.

Metaphysics is "the science of being as such." see link. The same source says this:

"Metaphysical essence: (in Scholasticism) The complexus of notes which are in a thing, as it is conceived by us -- i.e. the principle and primary notes by which that thing is sufficiently understood and distinguished from other things." http://www.ditext.com/runes/m.html

Our entire Western civilization has adopted that Scholastic definition because it works for us. It is the act of identifying the genera and the differentia, also known as "universals" and "particulars."

No, it isn't dead. We use those identifications every day. The day you decide you don't believe those identifications have any value left in your understanding of life is the day you have a "nervous breakdown."

People who recover from those breakdowns must re-evaluate their lives, or those parts of their concepts that caused the breakdown. They can be identifications of 'love', for example, if you broke down because you thought your husband was faithful and it turns out he has had 3 wives and 6 kids since you were married. Of course your metaphysical values are going to be challenged.

These re-evaluations are re-identifications, perhaps affirming the old identities, or requiring new ones.

Answer 10

No. It is evolving each day.

Answer 11

I have found that the belief in Metaphysics has increased during this time in history. Examples include "The Secret",  The Power of Attraction and various other recently published books and movies.

Man has always searched for answers.. and always will.