METAPHYSICAL PROBLEMS
The main problem that metaphysics tries to solve is "What is reality?"
But in addition to and related to this problem is a group of problems
that metaphysics also attempts to solve.
The following are some of these:
- The problem of change - Is change real?
- The problem of the one and the many -
Is reality one or many?
- The problem of universals and particulars -
Which are real?
- The problem of substance and attributes -
Are the categories of substance and attribute basic?
- The problem of relations -
What are relations and are they real?
- The problems of space and time -
What is space, what is time, and what is space-time?
- The problems of matter -
What is matter and is matter real?
- The problem of continuity -
Is reality continuous or discrete?
- The problem of causality - Is causality real?
- The problem of necessity and contingency -
What is necessary or contingent?
- The problem of determinism and freedom -
Are all things determined?
- The problem of essence and existence -
Which has primacy in being?
- The problems of theism.
- The problem of nature of man -
What is man?.
- The problem of Origins -
What is the origin of all that is?
- Evolution.
- Creation.