The Metaphysics of Philosophy, Knowledge and Morality

The Concise Metaphysics of Philosophy, Knowledge and Morality
       The Pivotal Paradoxes that Constitute the Human Condition

Introduction

This book is about the pivotal paradoxes of human existence as we know them in the 21st century.

If there was a coherent rational system about the world and our place in it, we could explore and describe it. Our experience is that all our attempts to identify such an arrangement fail, and we now know enough about our methodology to know that it is impossible to know things as they are.

We can be absolutely certain that true knowledge is unattainable, yet we can explore the frontiers of knowledge and know enough to succeed and prosper in life. Knowledge is thus both beyond and within our reach. The human condition can be best described as a series of paradoxes, and this is one of them.

This book is about metaphysics in the Kantian sense: it is a description of how our mind works, a reflection of the way we are compelled to think.

Traditionally, philosophers fail in life and people who succeed in life fail in philosophy. For philosophy doesn't care about life, and life doesn't care about philosophy. What it there was a philosophy with which you could succeed in life? This is what I attempt to describe in my book.