The proper starting point is metaphysics and epistemology .

更加适当的出发点是形而上学与认识论。

On the deepest questions , he believed , cosmology must give way to metaphysics .

他坚信，在最深刻的问题上，宇宙学必定让位于形而上学。

They 're not the only possible positions on the question of the metaphysics of the person .

他们不是在形而上学上对于人的问题仅仅可能的观点。

That view 's also worth taking seriously in a metaphysics class , but for our purposes , I mention it and put it aside .

那些观点在形而上学的课上也同样值得很认真的讨论，但是对于我们的这堂课的目的，我只提及这些并且将其放置一旁。

For all he owed to hegelian metaphysics , marx was also an empirical thinker who tried to frame theories about the actual course of historical development .

虽然从黑格尔那里学习了形而上学，马克思同时也是一个经验主义的思想家；他想要从实际的历史发展中提炼出理论来。