5/27/2023 0 Comments Metaphysics book![]() ![]() It carefully considers accounts of causation, freedom and determinism, laws of nature, personal identity, mental states, time, material objects, and properties, while inviting students to reect on metaphysical problems. Newton thought that there are atoms of matter and light, but with the methods of Newtonian mechanics and optics they were beyond the reach of experiments. This book is an accessible introduction to the central themes of contemporary metaphysics. ![]() At the very beginnings of modern physics, it was taken up by Galileo, Descartes, and Newton. ![]() The idea that matter is made up of microscopic constituent parts stems from ancient atomism. 1 Immanuel Kant The tradition of the particle concept goes back to traditional metaphysics and ancient philosophy. Thus, the second advantage of metaphysics is at once the least known and the most important, although it is also an advantage which is only attained at a fairly late stage and after long experience. To that extent metaphysics is a science of the limits of human reason. It consists in knowing what relation the question has to empirical concepts, upon which all our judgements must at all times be based. The second advantage of metaphysics is more consonant with the nature of the human understanding. ![]() And, on this occasion, too, satisfaction has escaped our eager grasp. But hope is here all too often disappointed by the outcome. The ?rst is this: it can solve the problems thrown up by the enquiry of mind, when it uses reason to spy after the more hidden properties of things. Metaphysics, with which, as fate would have it, I have fallen in love but from which I can boast of only a few favours, o?ers two kinds of advantage. ![]()
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