What Is Metaphysics? Naming the Seeking as Destination
A question of the form "what is metaphysics?" quietly installs metaphysics as something already there: a field with edges, a destination to survey, with the seeking that asked parked outside the door. Naming the irreducible seeking freezes it into a citable object; repeated return to the first person narrows the excess lag that the freezing leaves.
Much of the source holds. Martin Heidegger's 1929 inaugural lecture at Freiburg, What Is Metaphysics?, opens by forgoing talk about metaphysics and unfolds one metaphysical question instead, with the questioner put into the question. It finds…
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