Metafisica

Does every event truly have a cause, or is some of life just random? The Two Faces of Metaphysics

Here is an "interesting write-up" exploring the concept, its history, and its paradoxical nature. Metafisica

To engage in metafisica is to engage in a uniquely human activity. It is the act of stepping back from the immediacy of grocery lists, traffic jams, and social media notifications to ask: What is the structure of this stage upon which I am acting? Does every event truly have a cause, or

The word has a curious origin. It comes from the Greek ta meta ta physika , meaning "the [books] after the [books on] physics." This was not a title chosen by the philosopher Aristotle. Rather, it was coined by a later editor (Andronicus of Rhodes) who, when organizing Aristotle’s works, placed a collection of writings after his treatise on physics ( Physica ). The topics in these writings were about things that go beyond the physical world. It is the act of stepping back from