Metaphysics is less important than ontological ethics: the mapping of rights to types of beings. The pragmatic cash value of a metaphysic may be its ontological ethic. (Or maybe a metaphysic is just the theoretical residue of an ontological ethic?)

What gets a hearing and what just gets told? What is responded to and what is simply manipulated?

This line of thought gives the aesthetic notion “truth to materials” an ethical dimension.