The third piece in my "Inquiry into Morality," this essay illustrates another approach to the denial of metaphysics and its overall uselessness, and introduces epistemological skepticism.

If a metaphysical explanation for the possibility of morality is neither necessary nor useful, what then, can we base our moral experiences in? Part II of my "Inquiry into Morality."

Is there any basis for a metaphysics of morality? Can we ascribe to ourselves that which we can never know - a free-will?

Metaphysics (Greek (meta) = "beyond", (phisik) = "things from nature") is a domain of philosophy whose study object is explaining the nature of the world. It is the study of the being and of the act of being

Using Metaphysics to Better Understand Freedom.

Metaphysics is an intriguing branch of philosophy that can be extraordinarily difficult to grasp. I've put together a comprehensive list of books in order to give even the most amateur philosopher a solid handle on the subject.

A reading response to Aristotle's "science" of first causes.

Philosophical and metaphysical analysis of the works of Gottfried Leibniz.

New Age principals

An analysis of the philosophical merit of Immanual Kant and Sir Isaac Newton's metaphysical understandings as pertaining to an application of said understanding to Halley's comet.

Epistemology and the basic philosophy of empiricism are the topics of dicsussion. I will explain where Greek philosophy began and who the main contributors were to ancient philosophy and what their contributions were.

A review of Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko.

It's difficult to really categorize any truly great piece of literature or art. There's an extremely faint line dividing the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Metaphysical.

An overview of meditation, metaphysics, Qi energy, acupressure and cupping.

The aim of this paper is to understand the metaphysics of The Matrix and evaluate the results in terms of realism and anti-realism in order to determine which view this film supports.

Dialogue between a moral skeptic and moral rationalist/realist to better illustrate the nature that exists between the two schools of thought as it relates to 1)epistemology and 2) metaphysics of morality.

This essay introduces and evaluates some basic issues in the metaphysics of causation.

The hot-selling book and DVD, The Secret has directed much attention to metaphysics, particularly the New Thought ("Science of Mind") branch of metaphysics, which stresses The Mind as a powerful, divine creative force and agent of change.

This is a review of Richard L. Thompson's book which examines science and metaphysics.

Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Aquinas' Summa Theologica, Kant's Metaphysics of Morals, Burke's Reflections on the Revolution, Mill's Utilitarianism, Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons, Scruton's Sexual Desire and Mappes' Sexual Morality.

The topic of dreams and dream interpretation is ever popular with those involved in self-growth and metaphysics. Here are seven interesting topics for writing profitable and helpful articles on the water symbol in dreams.

Voltaire's Candide was a story that presented the harsh realities of a world filled with evil, selfishness, intolerance, and superstition. Through his novel he attacks the philosophy of optimism which asserts that all is well, when all is not.

I read the Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dcitionary of 1983 and found these words that may be relevant to you and your life.

If you are a Bostonian interested in New Age/alternative topics, you're in luck. Several nearby bookstores cater to your interests, selling books as well as supplies.

The earliest form of Jewish mysticism was the Merkavah tradition. Learned Rabbis would fast for 40 days and 40 nights, constantly in prayer, preparing for a conscious ascension to the highest hekhaloth, or the realm of the divine. The journey to...

Le Fanu is regarded by many critics as the greatest master of the Victorian Gothic. Le Fanu's short stories which involve Irish myth can be measured via the characters propinquity with the setting of Ireland.

An axiom post-colonial literature: The novel acts as a site of subversion to resist the imperialistic monolith To resist colonization, the post-colonial novel seeks to redraw the world as the post-colonial subject (or Other) knows, or does not, know it.

Anthropology struggled for years to be accepted as a science - and then promptly began denouncing it's scientific credentials once they'd been accepted. This paper represents a young graduate student's views as to the future for scientific anthropology.

Christianity implicit gain answers about being of our world and Universe, about philosophical being, and about possibility of existence of unseenable World of Heaven...

In 1851 Melville completed his most famous novel, "Moby Dick." It didn't receive much praise or success then, but it's now recognized as one of the great American novels.