A system without metaphysics

[Martín Zalacaín]

This is a short quote from a book I'm reading --I thought it may be relevant in the present-day context.

(I've translated it myself, so don't be harsh)

"Every system [of thought] without metaphysics is doomed to have no morals. Vain and unsuccesful will be any subtle attempt to build ethics and politics in the absence of universal and necessary concepts of justice and injustice, of rights and duties --whether it be Maquiavelo attempts, based on mundane experience and observation of the facts, or Littre's system, with his coarse doctrine of egoism and otherism."


Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo. Historia de los Heterodoxos Españoles. (History Of Spanish Heterodoxs).


Absence of metaphysics is the greatest sickness of our age --there lies the core of all our problems. It's not inmigration, it's not liberalism. These are just effects. When I seek for the causes, I always reach the same conclusion: it's the death of the Gods what is rotting our civilization.