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The document reflects on the statement "The world is just there, and that is all that there is to be said about it." It argues that philosophers since ancient times have subjected the world to reason and concluded there is more to understand about it. As thinking beings, philosophers are constantly asking questions about both the physical and metaphysical world. Saying the world is simply "just there" would be to evade the fundamental question of why we exist, which philosophers cannot avoid exploring through reasoned inquiry.

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Metaphysics Assignment

The document reflects on the statement "The world is just there, and that is all that there is to be said about it." It argues that philosophers since ancient times have subjected the world to reason and concluded there is more to understand about it. As thinking beings, philosophers are constantly asking questions about both the physical and metaphysical world. Saying the world is simply "just there" would be to evade the fundamental question of why we exist, which philosophers cannot avoid exploring through reasoned inquiry.

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Sem. Deo B.

De los Reyes Metaphysics October 2, 2017

Reflection on : “The world is just there, and that is all that there is to be said about it.”

It was said that the beginning of Philosophy began when thinkers like Thales of Miletus
started to ask where did the physical world came from, and from which he stated that it was
water. Although we may prove Thales wrong in his mileiu, but what mattered was the question
that was raised long ago about the existence of the world, “Why does the world exist?” And from
that wondering question, other thinkers followed him and began to deduce their own
conclusions, some said air, others; fire or the boundless. And so, philosophers since the ancient
times subjected the world to reason and have judged that there is more to the world. But then the
one thinking that there is much something of this world, the philosopher, must also be subjected
to reason. Since the mind of the philosopher is ever constantly asking questions about many
things that exist. The philosopher asks about the physical world that he lives in and constructs
many answers which try to solve these questions; he also asks about the world that is ever more
elusive and perrenial that of which is the metaphysical world since beyond the physical hides the
metaphysical. And so the philosopher tries to rely on the systematic method of science to
understsand the physical world, however there are questions which cannot be answered in the
way science explains the physical world. There is always something still to be questioned of the
physical world. And, one of these questions is always present in every person’s life. This is the
fundamental question of existence, Why do we exist? A question that the philosopher cannot
avoid and ask this question since it is always there in a implicit way. It follows every being, so to
say the philospher, that exist, begging to be answered. To say that the world will always be “just
there” and there is nothing to ask about, would be an act evasion to the question of existence, and
thus possibly lead on to live a life of existence without direction. The philosopher although
surrounded by so many possible answers to this question of existence in many different
approaches, still, one can reasonably decide whether this approaches to existence are the ways
one ought to live. Then, it is possible that one can exist in a true and wise way as well as exist in
negligence and foolishly one’s purpose of existence in this world. And so there is a need not to
be contented with looking at existence as merely there “just there”; the ever undiscovered world
always invites us that there is a need for wise reasoning concerning one’s existence. The
philosopher must clearly confront this question of existence.

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