Archive for the Metaphysics Category

Open Question

Posted in Metaphysics with tags on September 16, 2008 by 451

Leo Tolstoy wrote in his essays on Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence, “If man finds no meaning in life, he dies.” Without God where does man find his meaning and how does he verify and validate his or her life.

From Church and State p211

Truth – Albert Camus – The Fall

Posted in 451, Metaphysics with tags on September 8, 2008 by 451

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. p 120

Metaphysics, let the thinking begin

Posted in 451, Metaphysics with tags , , on September 8, 2008 by 451

Metaphysics is “the ultimate science of being and knowing and deals with the first principles of things, including such concepts as being, substance, essence, time, space, cause and identity[i].


[i] Oxford English Dictionary