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Metaphysics Meaning Metaphysical dimension in the search for meaning | ||
| Philosophy Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 16, 2018, Pages 63-82 | ||
| Author | ||
| Munther Glob | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The basic theme that the logical positivism was to prove the absence of meaning of metaphysics. In this research I want to prove the rush of the thesis of logical positivism and that metaphysics is the most important place to search for meaning. And that what the logical positivism has done is merely flattening things irresponsibly. No type of research can replace metaphysics in its search for meaning. Metaphysics is the only field that covers the human effort in investigating the meaning of human existence and the purpose of that existence. It is ironic that a person tries to execute the only study specialized in the search for meaning on the pretext that it is meaningless. Metaphysics, in essence, is a search for meaning. The meaning of metaphysics is deeper and more authentic than the meaning that logical positivism is looking for. If the logical positivism seeks the meanings of terms of empirical use such as (All snow is white), metaphysics searches for the most distant meanings of existence in general and human existence in particular. The principle of verification is based on the assumption that science, in its present Western sense, is the only way to reach any knowledge at all. This is an arbitrary, precipitous metaphysical assumption according to the principle of verification itself, among other criteria. As has been said more than once that a person must be a philosopher to reject philosophy, in the sense that the rejection of philosophy is philosophical in itself, I believe that one needs metaphysics in order to be able to reject metaphysics. i.e. rejecting metaphysics is a metaphysical act. This was proved by the logical positivism itself when it wanted to reject metaphysics, and to do so it formulated a metaphysical principle of verification. | ||
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