Metaphysics (n.) is a way of thinking that, building on ontological 'evidences' which remain unaccounted for, looks at beings as merely existing entities and at reality as the presence of things that can be defined and theorized by separating a subject and an object of inquiry, in this way forgetting, or hiding, being as such.
Metaphysics (n.) is characterized by questions such as 'where is the dog'' In such a way that it neglects the very questions it begs such as 'whose dog' Which dog' Dog in what sense'.
Metaphysics (n.) is incapable of knowing the way in which the essence of truth and of being and the relation to them determine the essence of man, so that neither animality nor rationality, neither the body nor the soul, nor the spirit, nor all three together, suffice to comprehend the basic essence of man.
Metaphysics (n.) is no more than the determination of ground-as-support. It is the question of what the ground will withstand, of what can stand on the ground.
Metaphysics (n.) is not something to be defined directly. Instead one must take up a particular metaphysical question in order to let oneself be transposed directly into metaphysics. Only in this way will we provide metaphysics the proper occassion to introduce itself.
Metaphysics (n.) wrongheadedly sees men as mortal animated beings whose earthly life comes to an end. In fact, we are not mortals because our earthly life comes to an end, but because we are capable of death as death.
Metaphysics (n.) seeks to gain domination over everything with its knowledge of the absolute origin of the universe.
Metaphysics (n.) is synonymous with anthropocentrism and the view that the human being is a subject opposed to an objective world.
Metaphysics (n.) legitimates such questions as 'what is a thing'' Which is the type of question that causes housemaids to laugh.
Metaphysics (n.) is the type of philosophy, dominant from plato through nietzsche, which answers the question of being with the name of one particular highest being that explains or dominates the others.
Metaphysics (n.) is the wrongheaded search for an ultimate foundation for all reality, for a 'primary being' in relation to which all other beings find their place and purpose where traditional metaphysics (ontotheology) had placed God, modern metaphysics substituted man.
Metaphysics (n.) is trapped on the surface-world of presence. We can move beyond it via fundamental moods such as angst (which puts us directly in touch with nothing, and great poet which hints into the depths, whereby hinting is the only way to approach those depths.
Metaphysics (n.) is unable to approach being itself while fundamental moods such as despair or rejoicing take us beyond all metaphysics by putting us in direct contact with the question of being.
Metaphysics (n.) is not just a questioning about the ultimate nature of reality; it refers to types of philosophy that try to explain all of being in terms of one specific, privileged sort of being (such as atoms, God, or the human soul).
Metaphysics (n.) is distorted from the fact in that the word ‘physics’ ought to be taken as the Greek word for nature ‘physics’, which is nature but not simply “nature,” rather the sprouting and emerging of being from concealment.
Metaphysics (n.) is the result of combining ontology with metontology (regional ontology).
Metaphysics (n.) is a term of contempt for those philosophies that remain trapped in ontotheology: philosophies that define being itself in terms of one specific kind of being: whether it be water, air, atoms, thinking substance, absolute spirit, will to power, or intentionality.
Metaphysics (n.) is problematic because in it, all entities are shown to rest on some deeper ground or cause, and this ground is supposed to be more truly present in the world than everything that derives from it.
Metaphysics (n.) is unable to move beyond the surface-world of presence.
Metaphysics (n.) is not amenable to thinking because it misses the play of absence and presence and sets up the sheer dominance of presence.