Metaphysics in Philosophy Explained - Introduction to Metaphysics, What is it?

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What is Metaphysics?
What is a person? If parts of you were to begin to vanish, at what point would you no longer be considered a person? If we know a person is fundamentally made up of individual atoms, is the concept of a person really an illusion? Is there a fundamental structure to reality? What exactly is time, and how does it fit in? These questions are just a few that one might find in metaphysics. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies what reality is, answering questions like ‘what is there?’ and ‘what is it like?’.
However, what metaphysics is precisely is controversial and difficult to define. The reason being that this branch of philosophy and what it attempts to solve has changed throughout the centuries.
This video will serve as a brief introduction to metaphysics. We’ll differentiate between ‘old’ metaphysics and ‘new’ metaphysics, examine whether metaphysics is even possible, how science today relates to metaphysics, and exciting problems metaphysics hopes to solve.
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0:00 Introduction
0:23 Metaphysics Defined
0:56 Where the Term Comes From
1:41 'Old ' Metaphysics
3:12 ‘New’ Metaphysics
4:36 Can Metaphysics Be Done?
7:43 Metaphysics & Methodology
8:36 Science & Metaphysics
10:14 Ontology
10:56 Philosophy of Mind
11:46 Causation, Determinism, & Free Will
12:30 Space & Time
13:27 Conclusion - Metaphysics Reborn

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@metaphysicswithariyana2794 2 жыл бұрын

the best thorough explanation of Metaphysics I've come across so far. Thank you, Ben. I'll be listening to and unpacking this for a long time.

@metafisicacibernetica 2 жыл бұрын

hahahaahhaha

@metaphysicswithariyana2794 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if sometimes there are just smart people who sometimes just don't have the ability to experience spiritual things, like dream, meditate or have intuition. and that's why some people don't see the value of Metaphysics. What do you think?

@TheLastOutlaw289 2 жыл бұрын

You are 100% correct. Philosophy according to the man who coined the term “Pythagorus” means the love of wisdom…this wisdom referred to here is NOT epistemic knowledge…it is gnosis or knowledge of spiritual mysteries. This knowledge is accessed through a practice called Theurgy or Apophatic Contemplation according to Plotinus. Plato calls it anamnesis which does NOT mean to remember(recollection) it means to reveal gradually the nature of the true Self or Soul where the true Mind can be engaged. It is turning inwards an requires a lot of discipline…these modern existentialists lacked that and started spewing rubbish… Even when Nikola Tesla told us about the ether they rejected it and gave us more physical particles and called it quantum …to avoid the possibility of a non-physical substrate to reality. When will the materialistic madness stop…

@jennifermurray3713 2 жыл бұрын

I'm recovering head trauma. my eyes are different now . I saw something 2 x that is completely understandable. tho I try . here goes . I saw a cloud 20' from my window shaped like a 3D flower of life ( as big as my Ford truck. it had spikes like ferro fluid . it was round . it vented out thru the spikes . the second one I saw a white bird tumble out of it and fly away . the cloud was absorbed by a pine tree both times , a different pine tree each time!? wth is even going on here ?

@onthepath501 11 ай бұрын

I think it's the smart people that have the ability to experience spiritual things like dreams , meditate,out of body experiences intuition..I'm obsessed with metaphysics. When there's a sea of people that can read something to memorize it and just regurgitate that information... I think it takes a deeper mind to understand what's beyond the known reality...

@ULINEgo 11 ай бұрын

THANKS MAN- This ticked all the boxes. Brilliant summary to introduce to the concepts.

@jalepezo 2 жыл бұрын

love the milenial friendly approach, as an ESL student I appreciate the friendly approach ! thanks

@sancigonz9859 3 жыл бұрын

Great content! I like the pace of the video.

@SoulReno 2 жыл бұрын

WOW, this is amazing!!

@vincentzevecke4578 Ай бұрын

This is an excellent video

@georgedoyle2487 5 ай бұрын

Well done!! Good overview and clear and concise. The one thing I would have added is that it was actually the brilliant mathematician Kurt Godel who put the final nail in the coffin for logical positivism in the 1930s with his discovery of the incompleteness theorems. Not mentioning Kurt Godels incompleteness theorems in this context is like forgetting to mention Einstein when discussing E = mc2. Einstein used to get up early to walk with Godel so he could pick Godels brains. Furthermore, a lot of atheist Edge lords still don’t know that logical positivism is self refuting hence the scientism and materialism of the gaps fallacies committed by the modern cult of “reason” such as the “new atheist” movement!! All the best.

@mysticallavish1360 Жыл бұрын

New subbie, I'm here to learn and interested where this takes me, thank you!

@nancytoulouse6973 Жыл бұрын

This is great 😃 thank you ☺️

@jonathanharris7083 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. Is it possible for you to make notation references of your quotes and key concepts in some way? - this would help our studies.

@clarkedavis488 11 ай бұрын

Thanks, well done. Do you know about the new metaphysics of Ontological Mathematics?

@kallianpublico7517 3 жыл бұрын

If illusion is sensing things that cannot be physically corroborated: color; and delusion is thinking things that cannot be sensed: atoms, time; then how can we agree on what's what or what's real? Is reality a social construct or an individual ability?

@sancigonz9859 3 жыл бұрын

We should look to neuropsychology and physics 2 explain the psychological correlation. Disclaimer ( transcendental idealism is about right from what we know about perception)

@gesudinazaret9259 2 ай бұрын

Social constructs are individual abilities and viceversa

@NirmalSingh-oz6qj 3 жыл бұрын

You are amazing.

@lisayuan 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, could you do a vid on New Age ideas like law of attraction, thoughts equal matter, and how they use language from quantum physics to make their point?

@sinisterminister3322 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, many misuse the term “metaphysics” or “metaphysical” to mean “mystical”, “magical”, or “new age”.

@gentofish 2 жыл бұрын

My mind is opening

@rezamoein3372 3 жыл бұрын

My mind just blew up 😟🤯

@vivekksingh9169 3 жыл бұрын

Keep going...

@pat1176 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@ruzya7 3 жыл бұрын

Could you recommend me books to start with? I hope I can find them over here in Argentina. Love your channel by the way, it's like going back to knowledge speed through speech.

@godfreydebouillon8807 8 ай бұрын

In the end, it is not possible to even do science without metaphysics, because it isn't even possible to do so because of the metaphysics of various universals.

@JasonObsidian 10 ай бұрын

There is no science without metaphysics and no metaphysics without science.

@havenbastion 2 жыл бұрын

A mention of mereology was warranted and world have helped people understand the origins of metaphysicsa lot better.

@EarthPEMF 2 жыл бұрын

Is Disclosure of UAPs an evolution of metaphysics in philosophy?? THINKING DEEPLY IS FOR PhDs. SOUL SEARCHING IS FOR FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY. But can a PhD in philosophy can study the branch of philosophy of metaphysics without soul searching?

@wendyjenuine7514 14 күн бұрын

😱🤯💥

@kentheengineer592 2 жыл бұрын

Just another ordinary conversation for me

@ZoiusGM 2 жыл бұрын

7:29 It is verifiable. I don't see how it is not. We can test the statement with our experience.

@8hei Жыл бұрын

but why is that a good way to verify things? what gives you the authority to make that claim? why do you think that is true?

@FROGG-C2OEmiamp. 7 ай бұрын

That's why I created my own practice Sciencentuality bridging two worlds into una a perfect balance replace that with religion & you'll be better off.

@wendyjenuine7514 14 күн бұрын

🤯😱

@painxsavior7723 3 жыл бұрын

first

@TheLastOutlaw289 2 жыл бұрын

“Universals” are “Frequencies”

@TheLastOutlaw289 2 жыл бұрын

Philosophy is the love of wisdom and wisdom is gnosis…..is knowledge of spiritual mysteries. Knowledge of Self not objective knowledge of empirical facts.

@sonnycorbi4316 8 ай бұрын

We don’t care about the infrastructure of “METAPHYSICS” - WE WANT THE ESSENCE - (OR AT LEAST I DO) -

@albertpickett7151 2 жыл бұрын

All this came from the mystery school and it was considered mystery school because it was not known to the unmelinated people

@godfreydebouillon8807 8 ай бұрын

Well, decent summary i think, but philosophers before Descartes absolutely did not take the world "as it is" or appears. Pre Socratics such as Parminades for example, believed that all of the changes we think we perceive or experience is all an illusion. Xeno, one of his students, particularly focused on the paradoxes of motion (Xenos Paradox) to demonstrate that reason proves that our senses are illusory and change (such as motion) isn't real. Thus it was said, human reason can be trusted, but not our senses. This is exactly the opposite of Heraclitus who sought to demonstrate that all notions of permanence is an illusion and change is the only real feature of reality. You'll find modern day "scientists" utterly ignorant about the subject making annunciations on both sides of the issue, sometimes even contradicting themselves. Unverifiable beliefs like "all of reality is nothing more than eternal quantum fluctuations" or "the universe is static, eternal, multi dimensional and unchanging, even though individual observers may have perceptions of change". Aristotle became famous for addressing those vastly disparite metaphysics, as well of course creating the subject of propositional logic. It absolutely was not meant to read it comes "after" physics, because metaphysics is *more* fundamental to reality than physics, and to even attempt to do physics, you first must have a correct metaphysical framework or you'll become irrational really fast.

@Mentox2 Жыл бұрын

"New Metaphysics" seems to me as a terribly impoverished version of "old metaphysics", analytic philosopher have, generally speaking, taken Quine´s desert and mistook it for an oasis. Time, however, has revealed that this was but a mirage leading to a philosophical dead-end. Hopefully philosophy can recover from this error.

@farzad1021 Ай бұрын

So, do you think metaphysics is a bad branch in Philosophy and should be excluded?

@Mentox2 Ай бұрын

@@farzad1021 No, God no. I meant the way that metaphysics has been researched in analytic philosophy should be reconsidered from its foundations. I only wish for Quine to be treated the same as the logical positivists.

@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns Жыл бұрын

“We know a person is made up of atoms” Assumes a mundane form of physicalism. As if other views aren’t even worthy of having a seat at the table.

@Observing-the-World 6 ай бұрын

Explained? A description is not an explanation, and a series of questions is certainly not an explanation. Its extremely simple. For example Sound is physical, Silence is metaphysical; light/dark, actual/potential, motion/stillness, charge/discharge, body/spirit, change/permanent, principal/attribute, ying/yang, hot/cold, expansion/contraction, acceleration/deceleration, inductance/capacitance, discharge/charge, quantity/quality etc etc etc. The universe works as the consubstantiality of both, ie; the trinity. Male/female;child. Physical and metaphysical; Now Sound/silence:music. All sound no music, all silence no music. All light no color, all dark no color etc etc etc. Welcome to the matrix neo :D There is no spoon. There is no you. You cant count spirit as you cant count darkness or silence or love or soul. Identities dont exist. Opinions, feelings and beliefs are utterly irrelevant against truth.

@ShangoJamal Ай бұрын

Are all classic philosophers white men, or are there others from Asia, India, Africa, or the Caribbean?? Are there any women philosophers?

@jsguitargeek1432 Жыл бұрын

"fundamentels"

@TheLastOutlaw289 2 жыл бұрын

It’s obvious that these so called “philosophers” have completely lost the point of the art given to Pythagoras by the Egyptians smh…😂

@disruptive_innovator Жыл бұрын

it is a new religion and an old one trust me it is

@hypnos2367 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing deep, beside some pup-culture spam or Zen koans, can come from videos less than an hour long.

@Katie-hj5eb 2 жыл бұрын

Burdens of reality dull what metaphysics could be... this is why I far prefer mathematics. Reality need not be applied.

@metafisicacibernetica 2 жыл бұрын

what is mathematics and how mathematics work?

@Katie-hj5eb 2 жыл бұрын

@@metafisicacibernetica its in bad taste to like your own comment... Mathematics is a set of axioms that branch out to endless further proofs. No reality needed.

@ZoiusGM 2 жыл бұрын

A question arises to me: why cannot we just say that metaphysics is useless since science is doing what metaphysics was 'supposed' to be doing and overwhelmingly better? Where is the use of metaphysics? Plus, if it isn't using the new information that science is providing, what good metaphysics is for? Furthermore metaphysics studies 'what' things are; impossible for humans to know what reality is. We can only know how it behaves and it characteristics which are investigated by science. In other words, humans cannot know 'what' things are; they can only know 'what' things are by their behaviour and characteristics, only know the behaviour and characteristics. Everything metaphysics is doing, science is doing much better! No need for this kind of philosophy to stick around.

@malteeaser101 Жыл бұрын

I don't know. If you have a question like 'do only universals exist?', I don't see how your could answer that with the scientific method

@godfreydebouillon8807 8 ай бұрын

It sounds like you don't really understand metaphysics. It is not possible, even in theory, to use science to know things, without a METAPHYSICAL framework.

@evan7391 3 ай бұрын

You are going to presuppose a kind of metaphysics before doing science anyways. In fact, the idea that "we cannot know what things are" is a kind of metaphysical position, which I actually hold to an extent. Metaphysics is also fairly simple, whereas science is always changing. They really aren't opposed to each-other, and reinforce each-other quite well.