I liked her rendition . <| sep |> im going to be making my designs into posters and possibly tshirts , perhaps available on anything on redbubble soon ! <| sep |> My question is are there any philosophers who have tried to rotate this around a second time and begin with ethics as the foundation on which they build their metaphysicsontology and epistemology ? Levinas is famous for this sort of view if we ' re looking for it stated in a very explicit way , but in a variety of complex ways it ' s a significant proposal , or one way to interpret what is going on , in an awful lot , perhaps most , of the major philosophical developments from Hume through to the early 20 th century . Incidentally , I think Descartes and Spinoza , etc . are a bit ambivalent about this , and while they can be read emphasizing their continuity with early modern philosophy as introducing the primacy of epistemology , I think there ' s also a sense in which they can be read emphasizing their continuity with medieval philosophy as still very much having metaphysics as first philosophy .