A Path into Metaphysics
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Beskrivelse af A Path into Metaphysics
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
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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