Volume 5, Issue 1, 2013
21st-Century Metaphysics
Christina Schneider
Pages 5-18
Metaphysics Between Scylla and Charybdis. An Analytical Perspective
Seemingly, metaphysics is trapped between the Scylla of being superfluous, on the one hand, and the Charybdis of being esoteric, on the other. Is there a way
out? In discussing two large-scale metaphysical projects that are very different in character, the article analyses one of the roots of this impasse – the ontological paradigm. The author tries, further, to argue for another stance towards the theoretical task metaphysics has to submit itself to: the paradigm of transcendentals. The structural-systematic philosophy will be a point in case.