The place of Dominican priest and philosopher Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century can also not be forgotten on this slope of decline.

Bacon rightly laughed at this, but what Bacon didn’t foresee was that tossing out Aristotle’s final cause, or telos, would result in the total collapse of philosophy. Aristotle had adopted several ideas about the natural world from tradition for example, the heavens are perfectly unchanged, static realities, and rocks have an essential quality of going downward. In fact, that last notion was crucial for early moderns like Francis Bacon who, as a philosopher in the seventeenth century, did have legitimate disagreements with Aristotle.

Aristotle cut the world off from the possibility of any other world or reality or dimension, and while it took a millennium or two, this ultimately resulted in materialism, positivism, and finally the negation of all meaning and purpose. Unfortunately, certain basic flaws in Aristotle’s own position led to that decline, particularly his adoption of empiricism. And over the length of centuries in the West, there’s been no lack of contributors to this gradual decline. Nowadays, aside from certain continental philosophers who follow in the train of genius writers like nineteenth/twentieth-century German philosopher mathematician Edmund Husserl, theoria and metaphysics have been jettisoned for pragmatism, postmodernism, and other forms of self-destructive prattle. Metaphysics is the starting point in terms of actual foundations of knowledge and presupposition, yet it comes at the end of the process of pedagogy, as it is the highest science. But metaphysics will never go away because metaphysics is reality itself-the study of the totality of what is. Modernity, in its quest for self-destruction, has more or less rejected metaphysics. For Aristotle, fourth-century BCE Greek philosopher, the starting point of wisdom, or philosophy, was metaphysics. The definition of metaphysics, despite what booksellers may offer in the way of do-it-yourself witchcraft manuals and stories of UFOs, is much different than any popular misconception of its meaning.

Get valuable insights on a variety of topics with Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism. In another essay titled “The Philosophy of Creation,” he argues that “reason” itself is nonsensical in the deterministic paradigm of Darwinian naturalism and that the crusaders of modern empiricism are committed adherents of the holy inquisition of scientism. The discussion revolves around a proposal by Socrates’s associates toĭefend his views of the afterlife and the immortality of the soul, followed by a counter argument by a Pythagorean and a final rebuttal by Socrates. He also leads readers on a deep dive of Phaedo, the dialogue of Plato that concerns the final words of Socrates. In an essay on metaphysics, he argues that with the exception of a few philosophers, it has been jettisoned for pragmatism, postmodernism, and other forms of self-destructive prattle. The essays span a variety of topics, including his thoughts on symbology, apologetics, alchemy, and number theory. Jay Dyer, the popular comedian, TV host, and author shares fifteen essays that have never before been published in book form.

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