undertake. Being thus mindful, one does not have a choice about being an animale metaphysicum. The matter is not being a postmetaphysician but being a good metaphysician, under the call of truthful fidelity to the sourcing powers of the “to be.” This does not mean that metaphysics is everything, but it does mean that in all our thinking some metaphysical presuppositions about the “to be” are at play. It may well be that these are mostly unacknowledged, not only by common sense or art or science or