“ALL men by nature desire to know.” So begins the first book of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, written about two and a half thousand years ago and still one of the most influential works of Western ...

Metaphysics explores fundamental questions about reality, existence, and being, primarily through abstract thought and reasoning. Metaphysics should be distinguished from philosophy. While metaphysics ...

Metaphysics has never had a “fun” reputation. Many people—if they’ve even heard of the M-word— tend to associate it with woozy, abstract lectures about time and space that spiral into confusion and ...

This blog series maps out the key elements of human knowledge to help folks make better sense of the world. The prior post (Part 2) introduced epistemology and shared Ken Wilber’s quadrant model. Here ...