Abstract
Idealisms and realisms as European constructs of thinking have in common the presupposition that the access to the real is a cognitive one, whereby mostly no distinction is made between the real and reality. Consequently, to make the real a topic means to question this presupposition and to ask about the mode of access in which the real is encountered.
This also makes it possible to relate the real to the concept of the world and to ask to what extent, on these foundations of a determination of the real, the world and reality, what is traditionally called metaphysics becomes possible. The paper proceeds in three stages: First, it asks about the real, then, from there, it grasps the concept of the world, and finally, it turns to the possibility of the metaphysical.