A Path into Metaphysics (Paperback)
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1990
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Paperback. List of Figures Preface Introduction PART ONE: HUMANNESS, METAPHYSICS, AND BEING 1. Secular Meditations Death Birth Embodiment Consciousness Self-Identity Space Time Interconnectedness 2. The Many Dimensions of Humanness Experience and Conceptualization Flatland: An Imaginative Model Imagination and Judgment Intentionality Sensing Conceptualization Reference to Being Implicit Features of Inwardness 3. Toward a Definition of Humanness Observational Differences The Proximate Inner Ground: Rationality The Ultimate Ground: Metaphysicality "Soul" as Center of Meaning The Human Being as the Sick Animal The Human Being as Religious Animal The Human Being as Historical 4. Metaphysics and Practicality The Meaning of Practicality Immanence Transcendence Relativity of Norms Levels of Transcendence Subjectivity and the Sacred Immanence and Transcendence Metaphysics and Practicality 5. Abstract and Concrete Identifying the Context of the Terms Bodiliness and Concreteness Concreteness and Universality Object, Subject, Praxis PART TWO: READING THE TRADITION Section A. The Ancient-Medieval Tradition 6. Parmenides "Heart" as Starting Point The Logic of Being Historical Aftermath Heidegger's Approach 7. Plato Metaphor and Allegory Dreaming in the Cave In the Light Geometry as Paradigm Eros and the Good Epilogue on Plotinus 8. Aristotle Empiricism and the Principles of Changing Being The Hierarchy of Changing Being Knowing and Being Revisiting the One and the Good 9. Aquinas Being and the Sensorily Given Essence-Esse and God Assimilation and Transformation of Aristotle "The Mystical" Analogy and the Transcendentals Presence to Being Section B. The Modern Tradition 10. Rene Descartes Methodic Doubt and the Cogito Being and God Cogito, World, God Response 11. Baruch Spinoza Being as a Single Substance Freedom Unity Response 12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz The Monad Hierarchy First Principles Response 13. Immanuel Kant The Ground of Kant's Thought Sensibility Categories Reason The Moral Order Critique of Judgment Response 14. G.W.F. Hegel The Comprehension of Christian Revelation The Phenomenology of Spirit The Logic of the Logos Nature and Spirit Absolute Spirit Response 15. Alfred North Whitehead Whitehead and Modern Physics Whitehead and Plato Response 16. Martin Heidegger Situating Heidegger Being, Truth, and Being-in-the-World The Light of Being Historicity and Authenticity The Play of the Fourfold The History of Truth and the Return to Meditative Thinking Response Epilogue: The Metaphysical Basis of Dialogical Pluralism Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- A Path into Metaphysics (Paperback)
- Author
- Robert E. Wood
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0791403068
- ISBN 13
- 9780791403068
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: HUMANNESS, METAPHYSICS, AND BEING
1. Secular Meditations
Death
Birth
Embodiment
Consciousness
Self-Identity
Space
Time
Interconnectedness
2. The Many Dimensions of Humanness
Experience and Conceptualization
Flatland: An Imaginative Model
Imagination and Judgment
Intentionality
Sensing
Conceptualization
Reference to Being
Implicit Features of Inwardness
3. Toward a Definition of Humanness
Observational Differences
The Proximate Inner Ground: Rationality
The Ultimate Ground: Metaphysicality
"Soul" as Center of Meaning
The Human Being as the Sick Animal
The Human Being as Religious Animal
The Human Being as Historical
4. Metaphysics and Practicality
The Meaning of Practicality
Immanence
Transcendence
Relativity of Norms
Levels of Transcendence
Subjectivity and the Sacred
Immanence and Transcendence
Metaphysics and Practicality
5. Abstract and Concrete
PART TWO: READING THE TRADITION
Identifying the Context of the Terms
Bodiliness and Concreteness
Concreteness and Universality
Object, Subject, Praxis
Section A. The Ancient-Medieval Tradition
6. Parmenides
"Heart" as Starting Point
The Logic of Being
Historical Aftermath
Heidegger's Approach
7. Plato
Metaphor and Allegory
Dreaming in the Cave
In the Light
Geometry as Paradigm
Eros and the Good
Epilogue on Plotinus
8. Aristotle
Empiricism and the Principles of Changing Being
The Hierarchy of Changing Being
Knowing and Being
Revisiting the One and the Good
9. Aquinas
Being and the Sensorily Given
Essence-Esse and God
Assimilation and Transformation of Aristotle
"The Mystical"
Analogy and the Transcendentals
Presence to Being
Section B. The Modern Tradition
10. Rene Descartes
Methodic Doubt and the Cogito
Being and God
Cogito, World, God
Response
11. Baruch Spinoza
Being as a Single Substance
Freedom
Unity
Response
12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The Monad
Hierarchy
First Principles
Response
13. Immanuel Kant
The Ground of Kant's Thought
Sensibility
Categories
Reason
The Moral Order
Critique of Judgment
Response
14. G.W.F. Hegel
The Comprehension of Christian Revelation
The Phenomenology of Spirit
The Logic of the Logos
Nature and Spirit
Absolute Spirit
Response
15. Alfred North Whitehead
Whitehead and Modern Physics
Whitehead and Plato
Response
16. Martin Heidegger
Situating Heidegger
Being, Truth, and Being-in-the-World
The Light of Being
Historicity and Authenticity
The Play of the Fourfold
The History of Truth and the Return to Meditative Thinking
Response
Epilogue: The Metaphysical Basis of Dialogical Pluralism
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About the Author
Robert E. Wood is Graduate Dean and Director of the Institute of Philosophical Studies at the University of Dallas. He is the author of Martin Buber's Ontology, and co-editor of the journal, The New Scholasticism.
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