Metaphysics and the Modern World makes the abiding questions of the nature of the self, world, and God available for the modern reader. Donald Phillip Verene presents these questions in both their systematic and historical dimensions, beginning with Aristotle's claim in his Metaphysics that phi...

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1. Verfasser:	Verene, Donald Phillip
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2016]
Schlagworte:	Metaphysics. First philosophy. Métaphysique. metaphysics. PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics. First philosophy Metaphysics
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	Metaphysics and the Modern World makes the abiding questions of the nature of the self, world, and God available for the modern reader. Donald Phillip Verene presents these questions in both their systematic and historical dimensions, beginning with Aristotle's claim in his Metaphysics that philosophy begins in wonder. The first three chapters concern the origin of metaphysics as the transformation of the conception of reality in ancient Greek mythology, the ontological argument as the basis of Christian metaphysics, and the Renaissance cosmology of infinite worlds and the coincidence of contraries. The final four chapters present the central issues of the metaphysics of history through the New Science of Vico, the principle of true infinity of Hegel's Logic, the dialectic of spirit and life in Cassirer's Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms, and the conception of actual entities and God in Whitehead's Process and Reality. In these discussions, the reader will find a lively and learned account of a field of philosophy that is often thought difficult to access, but in this work becomes most accessible and a pleasure to read. -- back cover.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-142) and index.
ISBN:	9781498238021 1498238025