Science, Thomism, and The Future of Metaphysics.

Discusses how most moderns and post-moderns find First Philosophy, or Metaphysics nonsense. Argument by Martin Heidegger that from Plato to our day, Western thought has been destined to a progressive "forgetfulness of Being"; Scientific technology that deals no longer with Being but only with "beings"; Western man who believes he controls nature by controlling thought; Opinion of Heidegger's disciple and critic Jacques Derrida; Rejection of metaphysics by European and British-American Analytic philosophers; Thomists, the chief defenders of the validity of metaphysics.