What is Metaphysics?

What is Metaphysics?

This is an important question which is the main question of

philsophy and religion both in the East and West. 

In Tamil it is known as "MeyyaRivu" or "thaththuva visaaraNaai" where the Sanskrit 'Thath"

means " what is in itself" and hence truth. Heidegger has written a book

called "what is metaphysics?". 

I use the term in the sense it was originally used by the Greeks: meta-physis meaning going 

beyond the physical and hence excursions into the nonphysical realities. The most 

important questions in metaphysics because of this become on the reality of God and soul as 

both are nonphysical and hence metaphysical.

I view metaphysics as the deepest Hermeneutic science and have explained 

it very elaborately in my 'Introduction to Metaphysica Universalis of

Meykandar', a translation of Meykandar's  CivanjaBotham available. 

Just to give a simple example, dreams are metaphysical, in my sense, and

hence trying to get at the meaning by interpreting it, an excursion into the metaphysical if

you take the dreams as having semiotic aspects to it. Similar but much

deeper are the interpretive studies of mythologies, folklores,

religious rituals and related matters. As such they also turn out to be

the study of the Unconscious in the Freudian sense, the Collective

Unconscious in the Jungian sense, Transcendental Uncollective

Unconscious in the Meykandarian sense.

I hope the above explains in simple terms the meaning of 'metaphysics'.

ULLAGANAR

( editing and re-paragraphing by his student)