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Metaphysics As Mediating Dialogue

Author : OLIVA. BLANCHETTE
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813237211
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics As Mediating Dialogue written by OLIVA. BLANCHETTE and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphysics is not often spoken of as a venue for dialogue about anything, let alone culture or religion, which are more readily associated with phenomenology or hermeneutics in contemporary thinking. This collection of essays, however, by the late Boston College philosopher Oliva Blanchette, maintains the absolute necessity of metaphysics as a prerequisite for examining any particular 'realm of being,' in all areas of human inquiry, from the particular sciences to historical cultures and religions. Blanchette proposes metaphysics as a fundamental and necessary level of intelligence presupposed in any exercise of judgment, discourse, or dialogue, among rational beings. At the same time, he defends the idea that dialogue is the first and most fundamental form in which such reasoning takes place in human experience, on a radically intersubjective level through language. Metaphysics is not an abstraction removed from human experience. Rather, it is a science in its own right defining itself in relation to 'being as being', its subject matter, as it depends on all the particular sciences and bodies of knowledge. Firmly standing on the ground of human experience, and on the human person as primary analogate of being, it opens up an entire realm of questioning that the particular sciences and bodies of knowledge, operating in functional separation, cannot pose on their own, especially when they take, in a reductionist fashion, their own object to be the prime analogate. Metaphysics, in fact, insinuates itself into each and every particular science in exploring its own subject matter of 'being as being' in the analogical sense, advancing to more and more complex stages of analogy through dialogue among different spirits and cultures, and reaching its terminus in the transcendent aspect of spirit and religion. In this sense, metaphysics has much to say to theologians: without metaphysics, theology reduces to mere superstition.

Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion

Author : Nicolas Malebranche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion written by Nicolas Malebranche and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics

Author : Michael Gorman
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813237335
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics written by Michael Gorman and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Contemporary Introduction to Metaphysics provides the reader with an introductory presentation of key themes in Thomistic metaphysics. There are many such books, but this one is, to use a phrase Michael Gorman has adopted, "analytic-facing," i.e., it presents things in dialogue with analytic philosophy. Sometimes that means disagreeing with analytic proposals (for example, possible worlds), and sometimes it means agreeing with them (for instance, making ample use of Ryle's notion of "systematically misleading expressions"). What's more, it (gently) takes a somewhat deflationary attitude towards many things metaphysicians like to talk about, such as accidents, universals, and the like. By "deflationary" Gorman means that such items are taken seriously, but their ontological status is taken down a notch: features, universals, possible worlds, and other such things are understood in terms of what substances are. Substances are "basic beings," and other things are what they are only in relation to substances. Of course this is Aristotle 101, but metaphysicians, Aristotelians included, often slip into treating non-substances as mini-substances, and Gorman pushes back against this throughout. A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics begins by explaining what philosophy is, what metaphysics is, and how these relate to other kinds of thinking. It then moves through a series of topics, ending with a brief look at applications of metaphysical thinking in theology.

Dialogue and Deconstruction

Author : Diane P. Michelfelder
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438413009
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Dialogue and Deconstruction written by Diane P. Michelfelder and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1989-07-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the encounter in 1981 between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jacques Derrida, there had been virtually no confrontation or dialogue between hermeneutics in Germany and post-structuralism in France, nor has there been since then. Part I of this book makes available for the first time in English the complete texts of the encounter at the Goethe Institute in Paris. This exchange raised such issues as Gadamer's relation to psychoanalytic interpretation, the questionability of texts, Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche, and the dialogical aspect of language. Part II offers further reflections by Gadamer on the encounter itself and its relation of hermeneutics to deconstruction. Among the issues covered are Derrida's interpretation of "Destruktion" in Heidegger, Derrida's attack on logocentrism in Heidegger's interpretation of Nietzsche, and the relation of Heidegger, hermeneutics, and deconstruction to dialectic. Part III offers commentaries on the encounter from a variety of perspectives. The authors assess the original encounter as well as Gadamer's subsequent reflections on it.

Dialogues on Metaphysics

Author : Nicolas Malebranche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dialogues on Metaphysics written by Nicolas Malebranche and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English and French texts of: Entretiens sur la m©♭taphysique & sur la religion.

On the Good Life

Author : Cristina Ionescu
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143847508X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book On the Good Life written by Cristina Ionescu and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Philebus continues to fascinate us with its reflections on what it means to live a good life by aiming at the right combination of pleasure and knowledge. In this book, Cristina Ionescu argues that mediation is a central theme in the dialogue. Whether we talk about mediating between distinct ontological levels, between steps of reasoning, between pleasure and knowledge, between distinct types of pleasure, or between concrete circumstances and ideals, the steps in between remain essential to a good life. Focusing on ethical, epistemological, and metaphysical aspects of the dialogue, Ionescu occasionally steps beyond the letter of the text, while remaining faithful to its spirit, as she tries to illuminate what is only hinted at.

Plato and the Foundations of Metaphysics

Author : Hans Joachim Krämer
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791404331
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Plato and the Foundations of Metaphysics written by Hans Joachim Krämer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the relationship of the two traditions of Platonic interpretation -- the indirect and the direct traditions, the written dialogues and the unwritten doctrines. Kramer, who is the foremost proponent of the Tubingen School of interpretation, presents the unwritten doctrines as the crown of Plato's system and the key revealing it. Kramer unfolds the philosophical significance of the unwritten doctrines in their fullness. He demonstrates the hermeneutic fruitfulness of the unwritten doctrines when applied to the dialogues. He shows that the doctrines are a revival of the presocratic theory renovated and brought to a new plane through Socrates. In this way, Plato emerges as the creator of classical metaphysics. In the Third Part, Kramer compares the structure of Platonism, as construed by the Tubingen School, with current philosophical structures such as analytic philosophy, Hegel, phenomenology, and Heidegger. Of the five appendices, the most important presents English translations of the ancient testimonies on the unwritten doctrines. These include the "self-testimonies of Plato." There is also a bibliography on the problem of the unwritten doctrines.

The Philosophical Basis of Inter-religious Dialogue

Author : Mirosław Patalon
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443802808
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Basis of Inter-religious Dialogue written by Mirosław Patalon and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the present epoch of tensions between civilizations, challenges being brought by globalization processes and the necessity of the coexistence of various cultures and traditions, the subject of inter-religious dialogue seems to be particularly significant. Can religions remain isolated islands? Are their claims of being the only source of theological truth justified? Or should it rather be understood as an effect of interaction between different points of view and common effort of looking for the answers to the questions about God and his relations to the world? What is the role of dialogue? Is it only a politically correct element or maybe something more essential – the basis of reasonable existence and development of religion? Should the direction traced by 20th century's partisans of ecumenical movements be widened in order to embrace also non Christian religions? What is the orthodoxy and where are its boundaries? The process philosophy creates a convenient and favorable atmosphere for this kind of considerations. The articles of this selection represent different points of view of the discussed topic. The book is addressed to all who deal with the inter-religious dialogue: both clergy and laymen as well as scholars and students interested in the subject.

Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton

Author : William Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton written by William Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Leibniz's Metaphysics

Author : Catherine Wilson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400879574
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Leibniz's Metaphysics written by Catherine Wilson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the metaphysics of G. W. Leibniz gives a clear picture of his philosophical development within the general scheme of seventeenth-century natural philosophy. Catherine Wilson examines the shifts in Leibniz's thinking as he confronted the major philosophical problems of his era. Beginning with his interest in artificial languages and calculi for proof and discovery, the author proceeds to an examination of Leibniz’s early theories of matter and motion, to the phenomenalistic turn in his theory of substance and his subsequent de-emphasis of logical determinism, and finally to his doctrines of harmony and optimization. Specific attention is given to Leibniz’s understanding of Descartes and his successors, Malebranche and Spinoza, and the English philosophers Newton, Cudworth, and Locke. Wilson analyzes Leibniz’s complex response to the new mechanical philosophy, his discontent with the foundations on which it rested, and his return to the past to locate the resources for reconstructing it. She argues that the continuum-problem is the key to an understanding not only of Leibniz’s monadology but also of his views on the substantiality of the self and the impossibility of external causal influence. A final chapter considers the problem of Leibniz-reception in the post-Kantian era, and the difficulty of coming to terms with a metaphysics that is not only philosophically "critical" but, at the same time, “compensatory.” Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Religion, Metaphysics, and the Postmodern

Author : Christopher Ben Simpson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253221242
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Metaphysics, and the Postmodern written by Christopher Ben Simpson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engages two provocative contemporary philosophers of religion

Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment

Author : Michael Prince
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521550628
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment written by Michael Prince and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first full-length study of philosophical dialogue during the English Enlightenment. It explains why important philosophers - Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Berkeley and Hume - and innumerable minor translators, imitators and critics wrote in and about dialogue during the eighteenth century; and why, after Hume, philosophical dialogue either falls out of use or undergoes radical transformation. Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment describes the extended, heavily coded, and often belligerent debate about the nature and proper management of dialogue; and it shows how the writing of philosophical fictions relates to the rise of the novel and the emergence of philosophical aesthetics. Novelists such as Fielding, Sterne, Johnson and Austen are placed in a philosophical context, and philosophers of the empiricist tradition in the context of English literary history.

Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic

Author : William Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic written by William Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hegel and Metaphysics

Author : Allegra de Laurentiis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110424444
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Hegel and Metaphysics written by Allegra de Laurentiis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collective focus of the essays here presented consists of the attempt to overcome the deadlock between metaphysical and non- (or anti-) metaphysical Hegel interpretations. There is no doubt that Hegel rejects traditional and influential forms of metaphysical thought. There is also no doubt that he grounds his philosophical system on a metaphysical theory of thought and reality. The question asked by the contributors in this volume is therefore: what kind of metaphysics does Hegel reject, and what kind does he embrace? Some of the papers address the issue in general and comprehensive terms, but from different, even opposite perspectives: Hegel's claim of a ‘unity’ of logic and metaphysics; his potentially deflationary understanding of metaphysics; his overt metaphysical commitments; his subject-less notion of logical thought; and his criticism of Kant's critique of metaphysics. Other contributors discuss the same topics in view of very specific subject-matter in Hegel's corpus, to wit: the philosophy of self-consciousness; practical philosophy; teleology and holism; a particular brand of naturalism; language's relation to thought; 'true' and ‘spurious’ infinity as pivotal in philosophic thinking; and Hegel's conception of human agency and action.

History of the Problems of Philosophy: pt. II. Ethics. pt. III. Metaphysics. pt. IV. Theodicy

Author : Paul Janet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Problems of Philosophy: pt. II. Ethics. pt. III. Metaphysics. pt. IV. Theodicy written by Paul Janet and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Path into Metaphysics

Author : Robert E. Wood
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438424426
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book A Path into Metaphysics written by Robert E. Wood and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-07-05 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cappadocian Reshaping of Metaphysics

Author : Giulio Maspero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1009412043
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Cappadocian Reshaping of Metaphysics written by Giulio Maspero and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Giulio Maspero explores both the ontology and the epistemology of the Cappadocians from historical and speculative points of view. He shows how the Cappadocians developed a real Trinitarian Ontology through their reshaping of the Aristotelian category of relation, which they rescued from the accidental dimension and inserted into the immanence of the one divine and eternal substance. This perspective made possible a new conception of individuation. No longer exclusively linked to substantial difference, as in classical Greek philosophy, the concept was instead founded on the mutual relation of the divine Persons. The Cappadocians' metaphysical reshaping was also closely linked to a new epistemological conception based on apophaticism, which shattered the logical closure of their opponents, and anticipated results that modern research has subsequently highlighted, Bridging the late antique philosophy with Patristics, Maspero' s study allows us to find the relational traces within the Trinity in the world and in history.