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  2. Jun 25, 2019 · In the context of atheism, this sense of metaphysics is usually regarded as literally empty. What is a Metaphysician? A metaphysician is someone seeking to understand the substance of reality: why things exist at all and what it means to exist in the first place.

  3. Oct 24, 2024 · At the very heart of a religion such as Christianity there stands a metaphysical belief in a reality that is alleged to transcend the empirical world. It is the metaphysical belief that there is an eternal, ever-present creative source and sustainer of the universe.

  4. May 17, 2024 · The authors of these chapters all emerge out of and write on the French philosophical, and especially phenomenological, traditions, which of course accords with the focus on the lived experience of atheism, rather than on the metaphysical and ontological veracity of the divine.

  5. Oct 9, 2017 · Believing that metaphysics to conditioned experience is concretely non-existent (not the empty middle of neither exists nor does not exist, but an actual negation of the existence of God, as strong Atheism tends to do), is to acknowledge the invalidity of Form, Essence.

  6. Jun 10, 2012 · When Derrida says that there are "theological prejudices" imbedded in "metaphysics in its entirety, even when it professes to be atheistic", he means that when metaphysics poses as the supreme authority that pronounces "there is no God," it simply reenacts the role of God.

  7. Sep 10, 2007 · Ancient and Medieval philosophers might have said that metaphysics was, like chemistry or astrology, to be defined by its subject-matter: metaphysics was the “science” that studied “being as such” or “the first causes of things” or “things that do not change”. It is no longer possible to define metaphysics that way, for two reasons.

  8. Jan 13, 2021 · However, as opposed to the essentialist or even theological tendencies of traditional metaphysics, Badiou’s and Agamben’s ontologies are committedly “inessential” and atheistic at their very core.

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