The Return to Metaphysics is Necessary to Save Humanity from Barbarism

The Recent Vatican Document on Life Issues includes a statement not heard for more than 40 years from the Vatican, 40 years at least in a press release:


The philosophical key to moving out of the culture of death, suggests the document, is "an integral understanding of what is human." It explains, "Without a 'meta-anthropology' which touches the being, the substance, the spirit, there can be no integral understanding of what is human, because the concepts of person and being are emptied of content. Morals and religion, which are fundamental and decisive values, are reduced to a 'private matter.' The return of metaphysics is vital in order to regain a sense of what is human in man." (Vatican News Service)