[MD] The Radical Metaphysics

[Ron Kulp]

Ham,
I thought how Richard Schain observed how humans have a metaphysical
need
and how that need is best met through philosophical inquiry and
development
of consciousness, described well my own feelings toward the metaphysical
question you asked me about my own beliefs.

" We who live in the shadow of the overpowering forces of scientific
technology can hardly be capable of assessing their impact upon
ourselves. Sartre was correct in his thought that there is no escape of
the individual from the situation in which he finds himself. Our
qualities and values are enormously determined by it. But the image and
the ideal of the metaphysical self can still be brought into
consciousness and valued more highly than it is today. The metaphysical
need can be acknowledged without violating one's intellectual conscience
and can be developed in full accord with the facts of existence.
Philosophy is the name given to the effort to live up to this high
aspiration."
from "the problem of existence"


-Ron