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The Recovery of Metaphysics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2024
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One of the most notable features of Faith and Reason is its plea for metaphysics. The twentieth century saw interest in metaphysics recede to a low ebb. There were signs, however, that the tide had already begun to turn before Pope John Paul made his plea. Calls for metaphysics sometimes came from unexpected quarters. At the end of 1996, Clifford Longley wrote in The Tablet:
Unless it is grounded in reality, one must doubt whether a sense of the sacred can be much more than a kind of aesthetic sensitivity, an accoutrement of a man or a woman of exemplary taste. And one must doubt whether it can be grounded in reality without something like metaphysics to give it firm anchors.
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1 The Tablet 21 December 1996, p.1674.
2 Metaphysics I c.2.
3 Faith and Reason 5.
4 Ibid. 81.
5 Ibid. 82.
6 Ibid. 84.
7 Ibid. 82.
8 Ibid. 83.
9 Ibid. 97.
10 Ibid. 83.
11 Ibid. 97.
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13 Tractatus 6. 53
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