The spirit of these Essays on Metaphysics is summed up in the book’s subtitle: Socrates and Christian Neoplatonism are the constant referents -implicit or explicit- of all its pages. The underlying idea is that the so-called “modernity” has committed a “philosophical sin against the spirit”, which consists in having forgotten that the method of thinking is contained in the word “philosophy”, “love of knowledge or wisdom”. “Pure reason” without love is as blind as “pure love” without reason.

This volume brings together the mature fruit of the author’s reflections on the perennial validity of metaphysical thought. The Institute of Philosophy of the Austral University publishes this work in homage and gratitude to Professor Alvira for his penetrating contributions to Philosophy, from which so many universities in Spain and Latin America have benefited.

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