Heidegger had seen Nietzsche as attempting, but ultimately failing, to overcome the metaphysical tradition.

Ayer belonged to an empirical, anti-authoritarian generation in vehement revolt against an enfeebled, overblown and contaminated metaphysical tradition.

He also argued that the correct way to answer the challenge posed by secularization is not by rejecting modernity altogether but by correcting it in light of the classical metaphysical tradition, which must be rediscovered, renewed and purified.

Analyzing the spiritual crisis of the age, Hamvas read himself into the metaphysical tradition, the collective spiritual knowledge of humanity conveyed by sacred books.

Seseman liked to call his philosophy "gnoseological idealism", trying to revive metaphysics through a re-evaluation of the metaphysical tradition of ontology.

Proverbs, moral maxims, wise sayings, mythology, religions and other theological thought, metaphysical traditions and other value systems are part of the symbolic universe.

Thematically, Robinson's ideas, as expressed in Psychiana, grew out of the metaphysical tradition and can be classified under the New Thought umbrella.

Whether as a result of this obsession his own art falls into the metaphysical tradition he defined I will leave for wiser readers to judge.

The Elemental Chants spring from an ancient musical and metaphysical tradition taught in Western magic and spiritual arts.

Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational psychology, holistic health, parapsychology, consciousness research and quantum physics".