the realities of cognitive finitude (see Joe Biden) and the redemptive dynamic of doubt

first causes or unchanging things—would now be considered to be making thereby a metaphysical assertion. Second, there are many philosophical problems that are now considered to be metaphysical problems (or at least partly metaphysical problems) that are in no way related to first causes or unchanging things—the problem of free will, for example, or the problem of the mental

 and the physicalsome philosophers proclaim a new post secular philosophy. 

etaphysical problems (or at least partly metaphysical problems) that are in no way related to first causes or unchanging things—the problem of free will, for example, or the problem of the mental and the physical.

By articulating an epistemology sensitive to the realities of cognitive finitude (see Joe Biden)  human beings can encounter meaning and truth only as human beings, never as gods- ther is value in the redemptive dynamic of doubt,#

metaphysical assertion metaphysical assertion##metaphysics were significantly more unified in the Ancient and Medieval eras.#metaphysics were significantly more unified in the Ancient and Medieval eras.

Metaphysics is about things that do not change  The unchanging first causes have nothing but being in common with the mutable things they cause #

the problems of contemporary metaphysics? The final two sections discuss some recent theories of the nature and methodology of metaphysics. We will also consider arguments that metaphysics, however defined, is an impossible enterpris