Spinoza's ethics is closely related to his metaphysical views.
Many metaphysical views take the stance that life and/or the universe owes its structure to an intelligent design.
One is reminded of the equally metaphysical botanical views of Goethe.
Thus, the functionalist style tends to incorporate an empiricist rather than a metaphysical view of law.
For a long time the metaphysical view was held by both Chinese and Europeans.
Strniša is most renowned for his poetry, based on a highly metaphysical poetic view.
His logical-atomistic metaphysical view led Wittgenstein to believe that we could not say anything about the relationship that pictures bear to what they picture.
One solution to this problem takes a metaphysical view, in which the direction of time follows from an asymmetry of causation.
"It's the metaphysical view, the God's-eye view that you see these people about to collide."
Darwin was about a metaphysical view of the world.