What Is Metaphysics?

Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Paperback, 120 pages
9781800506480

Ruminations on Principial Knowledge and Some of Its Applications

This work offers an exposition, informed primarily by the Islamic metaphysical tradition, of principial and divine knowledge as distinct from information or merely factual knowledge. Advancing an argument in favor of integrating metaphysics at every level of one's being, the book also delves into various applications of metaphysics pertaining to the domains of religion, education, philosophy, art, ecology, and science.

"Cutting across a wide expanse of disciplines such as art, science, religion, and ethics, this book clearly demonstrates why and how metaphysics, seen as the science of the real and the real science, is unique in its ability to offer meaningful solutions to our world's most pressing issues, from the environmental crisis to the loss of meaning in modern life." - Yousef Casewit, University of Chicago Divinity School