Richard M. Weaver, an immanent philosopher of the 20^th century, described the foundation of any culture as something he termed its “metaphysical dream”. He defined the metaphysical dream as “an intuitive feeling about the immanent nature of reality, …the sanction to which both ideas and beliefs are ultimately referred for verification.” Furthermore, he asserted that “Without the metaphysical dream it is impossible to think of men living harmoniously over an extent of time.” The metaphysical dream is to the philosophy of a culture what axioms are to geometry and logic, givens that must be accepted before any further examination can progress. (more…)