1348.Metaphysics

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Metaphysics/ in the sense in which I understand it/ proceeds on the aSSUlnption that/ just as we ourselves have an ilU"ler as well as an outer aspect/ so also does anything else that/ like ourselves/ is concrete and singular. On this assumption/ then/ Inetaphysics seeks to explicate what is perforce necessarily implied about this ilU"ler aspect of all things by all that we think! say/ and do in somehow understanding ourselves/ others, and the whole and leading our lives accordingly.

This distinction between the "ilU"ler" and the "outer" aspects of things is obviously of a piece with the distinctions I Inake between (1) the "existential" and the "elnpirical" aspects of experience and reality and their "vertical" and "horizontal" dilnensions, and (2) "ultimate reality" and "inlmediate reality/ or the "ultilnate" and the "ilnnlediate" settings of selfunderstanding and life-praxis.

11 December 2005; rev. 11 Decelnber 2006