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• W330587923 abstract "TWO WEEKS PRIOR TO PHILOSOPHER PAUL WEISS'S 101ST BIRTHDAY, and almost exactly two months before he died, I interviewed him about his life and work on May 3d and 4th, 2002. It was not my initial intention to do an interview. I had wanted him to write a very short chapter for my book, The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy. He thought that it would require too much time to explore the set of questions that I had sent to him to address. So, in a very kind manner, he invited me to come to Washington, D.C., to record his responses to the questions that I had designed for him to write about. Of course, with this rare opportunity in sight, the list of questions grew. As I had only seen younger pictures of Paul Weiss, to my surprise, upon meeting him, he appeared very small in stature, frail, and gentle. However, although 100, when he spoke his mind was extremely sharp, his spirit was strong, and he impressed me with his vibrant desire to engage in reflection. As he spoke of having known Alfred North Whitehead, John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and others with such clarity, one could feel the weight of his longevity and the historical and significance of his memories. With great enthusiasm he talked about metaphysics, life, death, what death means to him personally, Being, what led him to found the Review of Metaphysics and the Metaphysical Society of America, what makes a good philosopher, his opinion of Martin Heidegger, and more. I had no idea that this remarkable man, one who did philosophy in a grand metaphysical style, would leave us in just two months on July 5th. In retrospect, I have come to give a different interpretive meaning to my having come to Washington, D.C., to meet and interview philosopher Paul Weiss. I was there to document the last philosophical testimony of this giant, and he was there to remind me of how passion might be sustained, even after 100, for the love of wisdom and the examined life. GEORGE YANCY: What attracted you initially to philosophy? PAUL WEISS: In a nonprofessional way, I was interested from the beginning. As a child, when I heard from a teacher that every word in the English language could be written using these twenty-six letters, I was dumbfounded. Dumbfounded! I was just a kid, five or six years old. I would go through my vocabulary list looking for a word that was not written with those letters. That, I would say, is a typical mentality. YANCY: In what way? WEISS: I was not trusting of authority. YANCY: As a philosopher, you have done philosophy in a grand metaphysical style. How would you define metaphysics? WEISS: Metaphysics is the attempt to discover what is presupposed by everything and the way it affects whatever else there is. YANCY: Is there something that will someday replace metaphysics? WEISS: I would say, no. I say this because metaphysics is defined as that which is seeking the final answers. It is that which is presupposed by everything, and involves that which interplays with this. Metaphysics is concerned with the primary conditions, the fundamental realities, or that without which nothing else could be. YANCY: So, metaphysics is higher than physics. WEISS: Yes. It is higher in the sense that physics presupposes it. Biology presupposes it, too. So does sociology. Every other enterprise presupposes what is dealt with by metaphysics. Metaphysics is a search for the presuppositions and what they interplay with and how they constitute what is. I am a metaphysician in the sense that I am seeking always what is being presupposed by everything. YANCY: Why is comprehensiveness so important to you as a feature of your system? WEISS: Well, because if I do not have comprehensiveness, there could be things that I have neglected that negate or subordinate or qualify what I do know. …" @default.
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