REALITY AND EXISTENCE

Human Reality
A human being starts “in” reality, not in the human imagination. Reality has images. Images have images. Reality is not an image of an image. Reality is the foundation of human reality with all its possible real moments and dimensions, “static” and “dynamic”. Reality is the “given”. A gift.

Metaphysics
“Metaphysics and the metaphysical is not something that is just there, it has to be made.” (Xavier Zubiri, The Fundamental Problems of Western Metaphysics, p. 32)
Tendency to Be
“But the fact of the matter is that just as stimulation itself opens the door to the awareness of reality for intelligence, so also the tendency to be opens at certain levels the function of opting. To opt is not only a question of tendency, just as intellective knowing is not only a question of sensing. And as intelligence is sentient, in like manner the will is tendent. Nonetheless, sensing is not intellective knowing, nor is tending or having appetite, willing. Now, to opt is only possible by virtue of the function of intelligence. From this follows that even though opting is compelled by the necessity of being relatively absolute, nevertheless, the terms of volition are opened by intellection. And since what is proper to intellection is to actualize the real in which real truth consists, it follows that what the will to be has of volition and not of appetite, is to be supported in one form or another upon truth. The will to be qua will is, therefore, formally will to truth.” (Xavier Zubiri, Man and God, p. 244) [Tr. note: Emphasis here is mine]