[MD] Chance

[Marsha]

Oh my gosh!!!  What shit!!!  Because I read it in a book???   Polly what a 
cracker?????


As I understand the present state of academic philosophy, metaphysics is 
dead. The course I recently finished in the philosophy of religion, for 
example, concluded with contemporary readings from an anthology titled 
"Religion after Metaphysics". It included a wide spectrum of views but they 
all agreed that philosophy in general and religion in particular had to be 
re-thought entirely because of the death of metaphysics. And that's because 
traditionally religion IS metaphysics. The kind of metaphysics you seem to 
demand can't be found any more except in theological circles and even there 
it would be considered old-fashioned. Nietzsche announced the Death of God 
more than 100 years ago. I mean, intellectual fashions come and go but the 
death of metaphysics is like the end of the horse. You're trying to sell 
buggy whips in a world in transition to the electric car. Most will see it 
as being quite useless, if not absurdly obsolete. More literally, you're 
trying to sell essentialism to an anti-essentialist crowd. You're selling 
metaphysics in a post-metaphysical world. That's why nobody's buying it.