Our current Metaphysics

A SUBJECT OBSERVES AN OBJECT

SUBJECT

Subject

OBJECT

Object

There are many conflicting problems created, and left unsolved by assuming only subjects and/or objects are fundamental.

Idealism vs Materialism

SUBJECT

Emmanuel Kant

OBJECT

Rudolf Carnap

AN ONGOING CONFLICT

If we favour one over the other, there appears to be important aspects of the other left out. If everything is an object, then how do we explain the idea that everything is an object is itself an idea? If everything is an idea, then why can't we imagine broken legs or cancer or any number of bad physical things away?

Free will vs Determinism

SUBJECT

Our will transcends the laws of science!

Rene Descartes

OBJECT

Baruch Spinoza

DOES CAUSE AND EFFECT DETERMINE OUR FATE?

Can we make a choice free from the cause and effect chain reactions of science? If not, then our fate is pre-determined and Free Will is yet another illusion which science has a history of disproving.

The Paradox of Quantum Theory

OBJECT

Isaac Newton

SUBJECT?

They don't. Experiments show that objects exist after they're observed, not before.

Neils Bohr

OUR METAPHYSICS CREATES PARADOX

Quantum Physics has shown us that it’s incorrect to assume something will always cause something else and that objects exist before we observe them. This runs in stark conflict with our metaphysics and what science has traditionally taught. If it’s not the objects we observe, what is fundamental?

Aside from these problems, exclusion is created, and deeper questions are left unanswered by Subject-Object Metaphysics.

An exclusive scientific reality

Why is it that reality is that which only a handful of the most advanced scientists can fully understand and explain?

Purposelessness of Life

If life is objectively, nothing but a chain reaction of cause and effects, then what is the point to life?

The non existence of morality

Where in the makeup of physical objects is there a description of what's right and wrong? But if right and wrong exists simply in the subjective ideas of people, then who's to say what's right and wrong? What makes one persons opinion more correct than anyone else's?

It's the lack of the existence of morality which is at the heart of the Subject-Object divisions problems. From the opposition of Religion and Science to the impotence of Human Rights - our current metaphysics lacks the ability for us to discuss morality in any real way.

But there's another metaphysics which puts these problems into a better perspective. It doesn’t replace what’s good about Subject-Object Metaphysics, but encapsulates it within a larger perspective. That perspective is one of Quality. That metaphysics is called the Metaphysics of Quality.

Learn about
The Metaphysics of Quality here.