Ralph Allen M.

Rayos August 17, 2022

Philo 10 B – Metaphysics
Aim: An Exercise of clarity of thought, comprehension of the assigned readings, ability to
synthesize and explain.
Response: Give a clear, coherent, substantial statement as your response to the question. Then
provide 3 interrelated points to justify, elucidate, support your main response to the question.

Main Point: Being is a fundamental attribute to all that exist, the totality of the real, it is the
centerpiece of metaphysics.
3 interrelated points;
• Being and existence are interrelated in its participation in the real world. What is common
to all real beings i.e., humans, animals, plants, is existence. Being is a fundamental attribute
because without it all are unintelligible, perhaps non-existent. For as long as the universe
is open to our experience, all these universal principles applied to all real beings are
intelligible. Hence, existence is the core level in any being.

• This community of existent beings, sentient, changing and finite, who is in a quest of
interacting and acting out towards each other, forms the universe of reality.

• This drive to know what a being is, our intelligibility, gives rise to metaphysics as we long
for a solution of what is the whole.