Importance of Metaphysics

Known as one of the most abstract branches of science that exists, metaphysics is part of the philosophy and she is the one in charge of asking herself the reason for the existence of both living beings like the non-living and of the same reality of which everything is a part.

The etymological origin of the word takes us to ancient times, where the thinkers and philosophers of Ancient Greece raised doubts and questions about the very existence

Although there were oriental thinkers who also contributed to the training of metaphysics, the main philosophers have been Aristotle and Plato, who raised questions that to this day remain the basis of philosophical science.

The object of study of metaphysics is, as its name says, what goes beyond the concrete and that we can see, that is to say that which goes beyond physics and that makes up all the abstract entities, the planet and the universe that surround. Metaphysics poses permanent questions to existence and points out that there are no unequivocal answers since the questions that the

The parts of metaphysics

Metaphysics is a branch of philosophical studies. At the same time, within it we can find two differentiated areas that compose it but that seek to analyze differentiated phenomena. One of them is ontology. The second is teleology. Both branches of metaphysics analyze reality from an abstract place: while the first one studies the entity as elemental form of existence, the second analyzes why this entity exists, what is its purpose and objective in the world.

We could say that all these questions and uncertainties are inherent to the human being as a rational being, that he can think and that he recognizes himself as living in a complex universe. None of these questions can be easily answered because, apart from having millions of different answers, there is no way to check them.

The difference of metaphysics with other sciences

Quite the opposite of what happens with other sciences that have a well-determined method of study and work, metaphysics (as any branch of philosophy) does not have certainties in almost any of its assumptions nor does it have a systematic way to prove those answers that may arise. Thus, the answer to what human beings are, why we are in this world, why we die or why we live in is almost impossible to achieve and that is why the different currents of philosophy will print different dyes.

Metaphysics is based on interpretations that seek to solve the most complex questions that can be known and even then the answers are not certain.

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