This
paper provides an overview of
metaphysics. The paper analyzes what some of its most well-known advocates have had to
say about it. The paper presents an assessment of how metaphysical thought has influenced ethics today. The paper illustrates that
metaphysics has been an influential way of thinking about the
world and mankind's place in it for thousands of years. Beginning with the Greek philosophers, metaphysics has provided a framework for understanding the world around us by recognizing what is true and what can be truly said to be moral.