Introduction to Metaphysics and Cosmology

Metaphysics is the study of existence, truth, knowledge, etc.. Its branches include cosmology and ontology. Cosmology studies the origin and development of the universe; genesis, and ontology studies the nature of being; 'be-ness.'

Read Plato's Theaetetus, the rest of The Republic or at least the description of the soul and axis mundi, and Phaedo, Phaedrus, Meno, Parmenides