Search Results - "metaphysic"

Categories historical and systematic essays /

Table of Contents: “…Sanford, categories and metaphysics : Aristotle's science of being -- Helen Lang, Aristotle's categories "where" and "when" -- Eleonore Stump, Aquinas's metaphysics : individuation and constitution -- William McMahon, reflections on some 13th- and 14th-century views of the categories -- May Sim, categories and commensurability in Confucius and Aristotle : a response to MacIntyre -- Part II: modern approaches -- Timothy Sean Quinn, Kant : the practical categories -- Carl R. …”
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Creation, evolution and meaning by Attfield, Robin

Table of Contents: “…Meaning, verification, and analogy -- Realism, anti-realism, and religion -- God and falsification -- Creation -- Arguments from world to God -- Darwinism, disvalues, and design -- God and evil -- Purpose, immanence, and the argument from value -- Meaning, evolution, and stewardship -- The ethics and metaphysics of stewardship.…”
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Creation, evolution and meaning by Attfield, Robin

Table of Contents: “…Meaning, verification, and analogy -- Realism, anti-realism, and religion -- God and falsification -- Creation -- Arguments from world to God -- Darwinism, disvalues, and design -- God and evil -- Purpose, immanence, and the argument from value -- Meaning, evolution, and stewardship -- The ethics and metaphysics of stewardship.…”
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The parent as citizen a democratic dilemma / by Duff, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the parent and the citizen -- Monsters in the garden : Rousseau on politics and parental virtue-- The tragedy of birth : Nietzsche on parenthood and political contest -- Troubled inheritance : Richard Rorty and the metaphysics of the child -- Deadbeat citizens : Cornel West and the parent as prophet -- Conclusion : exposing the citizen as parent.…”
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The parent as citizen a democratic dilemma / by Duff, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the parent and the citizen -- Monsters in the garden : Rousseau on politics and parental virtue-- The tragedy of birth : Nietzsche on parenthood and political contest -- Troubled inheritance : Richard Rorty and the metaphysics of the child -- Deadbeat citizens : Cornel West and the parent as prophet -- Conclusion : exposing the citizen as parent.…”
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Wisdoms of humanity Buddhism, Paganism, and Christianity / by Dubuisson, Daniel, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…A fragile and uncertain "I" -- A labile consciousness -- The pure consciousness of philosophers -- Impermanence and vacuity -- Unfinished humanity -- Techniques of the body and spiritual exercises -- Christian anthropology -- Disciplines of interior life -- Suffering and culpability -- Wisdoms and human sciences -- Metaphysics and religions -- Anthropology and wisdoms.…”
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Wisdoms of humanity Buddhism, Paganism, and Christianity / by Dubuisson, Daniel, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…A fragile and uncertain "I" -- A labile consciousness -- The pure consciousness of philosophers -- Impermanence and vacuity -- Unfinished humanity -- Techniques of the body and spiritual exercises -- Christian anthropology -- Disciplines of interior life -- Suffering and culpability -- Wisdoms and human sciences -- Metaphysics and religions -- Anthropology and wisdoms.…”
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Gerard Manley Hopkins : The Classical Background and Critical Reception of His Work / by Bender, Todd K.

Table of Contents: “…The critical response to the first and second editions of the poems -- The publication of the prose and a note on the unpublished notebooks -- The non-logical structure of "the wreck of the Deutschland": Hopkins and Pindar -- Non-logical syntax: Latin and Greek hyperbaton -- Metaphysical imagery and explosive meaning: Crashow, Hopkins, and Martial.…”
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Gerard Manley Hopkins : The Classical Background and Critical Reception of His Work / by Bender, Todd K.

Table of Contents: “…The critical response to the first and second editions of the poems -- The publication of the prose and a note on the unpublished notebooks -- The non-logical structure of "the wreck of the Deutschland": Hopkins and Pindar -- Non-logical syntax: Latin and Greek hyperbaton -- Metaphysical imagery and explosive meaning: Crashow, Hopkins, and Martial.…”
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Resurrection from the underground Feodor Dostoevsky / by Girard, René, 1923-

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- A biographical prologue -- Chronology of Feodor Dostoevsky -- Resurrection from the underground: Feodor Dostoevsky -- Descent into the inferno -- Underground psychology -- Underground metaphysics -- Resurrection -- Mimetic desire in the underground.…”
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Resurrection from the underground Feodor Dostoevsky / by Girard, René, 1923-

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- A biographical prologue -- Chronology of Feodor Dostoevsky -- Resurrection from the underground: Feodor Dostoevsky -- Descent into the inferno -- Underground psychology -- Underground metaphysics -- Resurrection -- Mimetic desire in the underground.…”
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In defense of Kant's Religion by Firestone, Chris L., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…People vs. religion -- Perspectives on Kant's Religion. The metaphysical motives behind Religion ; The philosophical character of Religion ; The indictment of Religion -- The defense of Kant's Religion. …”
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In defense of Kant's Religion by Firestone, Chris L., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…People vs. religion -- Perspectives on Kant's Religion. The metaphysical motives behind Religion ; The philosophical character of Religion ; The indictment of Religion -- The defense of Kant's Religion. …”
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Eric Voegelin's dialogue with the postmoderns searching for foundations /

Table of Contents: “…Bell -- Voegelin and Levinas on the "foundations" of ethics and politics / William Paul Simmons -- Politics, metaphysics, and anti-foundationalism in the works of Eric Voegelin and Jan Patoc̆ka / Edward F. …”
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Eric Voegelin's dialogue with the postmoderns searching for foundations /

Table of Contents: “…Bell -- Voegelin and Levinas on the "foundations" of ethics and politics / William Paul Simmons -- Politics, metaphysics, and anti-foundationalism in the works of Eric Voegelin and Jan Patoc̆ka / Edward F. …”
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Essays on love and knowledge by Rousselot, Pierre, 1878-1915

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Idealism and Thomism (1907; 1979) -- A theory of concepts through functional unity (1909; 1965) -- Spiritual love and apperceptive synthesis (1910) -- Being and spirit (1910) -- Thomist metaphysics and critique of knowledge (1910) -- Remarks of the history of the notion of natural faith (1913) -- Intellectualism (1914) -- Appendix: Sample of Rousselot's manuscripts.…”
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Confronting Aristotle's Ethics ancient and modern morality / by Garver, Eugene

Table of Contents: “…What Aristotle's Rhetoric can tell us about the rationality of virtue -- Decision, rational powers, and irrational powers -- The varieties of moral failure -- Passion and the two sides of virtue -- Aristotle's ethical virtues are political virtues -- The ethical dimensions of Aristotle's Metaphysics -- Living politically and living rationally : choosing ends and choosing lives.…”
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Melville's Thematics of Form : The Great Art of Telling the Truth / by Dryden, Edgar A.

Table of Contents: “…A note on texts -- Metaphysics and the art of the novel -- Portraits of the artist as a young man: narrative form in Melville's early novels -- Ishmael as teller: self-conscious form in Moby-Dick -- The failure of the author-hero: narrative form in Pierre and Israel Potter -- The novelist as impostor: subversive form in The confidence-man -- Epilogue.…”
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Barukh Kurzweil and Modern Hebrew Literature / by Diamond, James S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Barukh Kurzweil : a cultural biography -- Metaphysical postulates underlying Kurzweil's literary criticism -- Kurzweil's esthetics and theory of criticism -- Kurzweil on modern Hebrew literature I. …”
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Essays on love and knowledge by Rousselot, Pierre, 1878-1915

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Idealism and Thomism (1907; 1979) -- A theory of concepts through functional unity (1909; 1965) -- Spiritual love and apperceptive synthesis (1910) -- Being and spirit (1910) -- Thomist metaphysics and critique of knowledge (1910) -- Remarks of the history of the notion of natural faith (1913) -- Intellectualism (1914) -- Appendix: Sample of Rousselot's manuscripts.…”
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