Being and Intelligibility - Hardcover

Pacelli, Albert Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1532632878 ISBN 13: 9781532632877

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

What do we mean when we say that something is? What is the meaning of human experience? These two most elementary philosophical questions have perplexed thinkers for thousands of years. Being and Intelligibility explores them from the simple premise that all entities are essentially logical in their being. The book develops its three central theses: that the beingness of beings, called "Being," and the intelligibility of Being are one and the same; that nothingness (i.e., absolute not-Being) is self-contradictory and unintelligible and, therefore, Being is logically necessary; and that the fullness of human rational experience cannot be explained in materially reducible terms and requires recognition of the existence of transcendent reality, which includes God (as self-grounding good will), moral obligation and freedom, and the souls of men. Being and Intelligibility thoroughly investigates the implications of the essential logicality of Being, including that human Being shows itself to itself from within itself as a substantive, persistent, morally obligated unity among the ordered manifold of its life experiences, whose essential Being is orientation toward God.


Albert Peter Pacelli is an author, businessman, and lawyer. He has written on diverse topics ranging from philosophy to economics to law. Mr. Pacelli is the author of The Speculator's Edge (1989). He holds a BA and MA in political philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from New York University School of Law.

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About the Author

Albert Peter Pacelli is an author, businessman, and lawyer. He has written on diverse topics ranging from philosophy to economics to law. Mr. Pacelli is the author of The Speculator's Edge (1989). He holds a BA and MA in political philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from New York University School of Law.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1532632878
• ISBN 13: 9781532632877
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368