Search Results - "metaphysic"

Aristotle a guide for the perplexed / by Vella, John A.

Table of Contents: “…Science (episteme) -- Division of the sciences according to aims and objects -- Demonstration (apodeixis) -- The axioms of the sciences -- Being or substance (ousia) -- Being before aristotle -- Being in the categories -- The science of being: first philosophy -- Being in metaphysics zeta -- Nature (physis) -- Principles of change -- The four causes or explanations (aitiai) -- Defense of teleology -- Soul (psyche) -- Soul as substance, form and actuality -- What the student of soul investigates -- Perception -- Thought -- Success (eudaimonia) -- The practical science of ethics -- The chief and final good for human beings -- Virtues of character -- Virtues of intellect.…”
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Shifting ground knowledge and reality, transgression and trustworthiness / by Scheman, Naomi

Table of Contents: “…Non-negotiable demands : metaphysics, politics, and the discourse of needs -- Feminist epistemology -- On waking up one morning and discovering that we are them -- Terminal moraine -- Against physicalism -- Feeling our way toward moral objectivity -- Queering the center by centering the queer : reflections on transsexuals and secular Jews -- Forms of life : mapping the rough ground -- The trustworthiness of research : the paradigm of community-based research (co-authored with Catherine Jordan and Susan Gust) -- Narrative, complexity, and context : autonomy as an epistemic value -- Epistemology resuscitated : objectivity as trustworthiness.…”
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Duns Scotus by Cross, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Sacraments -- App. 1. Metaphysics and the transcendental attributes -- App. 2. …”
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Morality in a natural world selected essays in metaethics / by Copp, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Naturalism : epistemology, and metaphysics -- Why naturalism? -- Four epistemological challenges to ethical naturalism : naturalized epistemology and the first-person perspective -- Moral naturalism and self-evident moral truths -- Moral necessities in a contingent world -- Referring to moral properties -- Realist-expressivism : a neglected option for moral realism -- Milk, honey, and the good life on moral twin Earth -- Referring to moral properties : moral twin Earth, again -- Naturalism and normativity -- Moral naturalism and three grades of normativity -- The Ring of Gyges : overridingness and the unity of reason -- The normativity of self-grounded reason.…”
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God and evolution fundamental questions of Christian evolutionism / by Życiński, Józef

Table of Contents: “…Biology and metaphysics in Charles Darwin's conception of evolution -- Fundamentalisms and evolution -- Elements of fundamentalism in atheistic evolutionism -- Evolution and Christian thought in dialogue according to the teaching of John Paul II -- Ontological naturalism and the role of supervenience in evolution -- Varieties of teleology in the philosophical interpretation of nature -- Physical necessity and the teleological structure of the universe -- Discontinuity and non-linearity in evolution -- The God of an evolving nature -- The ontological interpretation of the immanence of God in nature -- The cosmic kenosis of God -- The prehistory of rational man -- Sociobiological explanations of the essence of human culture -- The anthropological meaning of the truth about original sin.…”
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Thinking between Deleuze and Kant a strange encounter /

Table of Contents: “…Bryant -- Levelling the levels / Matt Lee -- The genesis of cognition : Deleuze as a reader of Kant / Edward Willatt -- The nature of productive force : Kant, Spinoza and Deleuze / Mick Bowles -- Deleuze's 'reconstruction of reason' : from Leibniz and Kant to difference and repetition / Christian Kerslake -- Transcendental illusion and antinomy in Kant and Deleuze / Henry Somers-Hall -- Transcendental idealism, Deleuze and Guattari, and the metaphysics of objects -- Michael J. Olson.…”
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Aesthetics and modernity essays / by Heller, Agnes

Table of Contents: “…-- Autonomy of art or the dignity of the artwork -- The role of emotions in the reception of artworks -- Joke culture and transformations of the public sphere -- The contemporary historical novel -- The metaphysics of embodiment in the western tradition -- European master-narratives about freedom -- The three logics of modernity and the double bind of the modern imagination -- The absolute stranger: Shakespeare and the drama of failed assimilation -- The gods of Greece : Germans and Greeks -- Self representation and the representation of the other -- Where are we at home?.…”
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Reclaiming moral agency the moral philosophy of Albert the Great / by Cunningham, Stanley B., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Albert and the career of virtue theory -- Modern virtue theory as foreground to Albert's moral philosophy -- Albert's ethical treatises -- The significance of Albert's moral treatises in early-thirteenth-century moral philosophy -- Approaching the moral order -- Meta-ethical reflections on "moral science" and its procedures -- The metaphysics of the good -- The architecture of moral goodness -- The genesis of virtue : intrinsic causes -- The genesis of virtue : extrinsic causes -- The concept of virtue -- The organization of the virtues -- The passions -- Morality, obligation, and law -- Natural law -- Virtue's rewards -- Friendship -- Last ends and happiness -- Conclusion: Albertus redux.…”
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Richard Rorty his philosophy under discussion /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Strong and weak metaphysical quietism / Stefan Hessbrüggen ... [et al.] -- The world regained? …”
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Thinking between Deleuze and Kant a strange encounter /

Table of Contents: “…Bryant -- Levelling the levels / Matt Lee -- The genesis of cognition : Deleuze as a reader of Kant / Edward Willatt -- The nature of productive force : Kant, Spinoza and Deleuze / Mick Bowles -- Deleuze's 'reconstruction of reason' : from Leibniz and Kant to difference and repetition / Christian Kerslake -- Transcendental illusion and antinomy in Kant and Deleuze / Henry Somers-Hall -- Transcendental idealism, Deleuze and Guattari, and the metaphysics of objects -- Michael J. Olson.…”
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Aesthetics and modernity essays / by Heller, Agnes

Table of Contents: “…-- Autonomy of art or the dignity of the artwork -- The role of emotions in the reception of artworks -- Joke culture and transformations of the public sphere -- The contemporary historical novel -- The metaphysics of embodiment in the western tradition -- European master-narratives about freedom -- The three logics of modernity and the double bind of the modern imagination -- The absolute stranger: Shakespeare and the drama of failed assimilation -- The gods of Greece : Germans and Greeks -- Self representation and the representation of the other -- Where are we at home?.…”
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Reclaiming moral agency the moral philosophy of Albert the Great / by Cunningham, Stanley B., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Albert and the career of virtue theory -- Modern virtue theory as foreground to Albert's moral philosophy -- Albert's ethical treatises -- The significance of Albert's moral treatises in early-thirteenth-century moral philosophy -- Approaching the moral order -- Meta-ethical reflections on "moral science" and its procedures -- The metaphysics of the good -- The architecture of moral goodness -- The genesis of virtue : intrinsic causes -- The genesis of virtue : extrinsic causes -- The concept of virtue -- The organization of the virtues -- The passions -- Morality, obligation, and law -- Natural law -- Virtue's rewards -- Friendship -- Last ends and happiness -- Conclusion: Albertus redux.…”
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Richard Rorty his philosophy under discussion /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Strong and weak metaphysical quietism / Stefan Hessbrüggen ... [et al.] -- The world regained? …”
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Morality in a natural world selected essays in metaethics / by Copp, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Naturalism : epistemology, and metaphysics -- Why naturalism? -- Four epistemological challenges to ethical naturalism : naturalized epistemology and the first-person perspective -- Moral naturalism and self-evident moral truths -- Moral necessities in a contingent world -- Referring to moral properties -- Realist-expressivism : a neglected option for moral realism -- Milk, honey, and the good life on moral twin Earth -- Referring to moral properties : moral twin Earth, again -- Naturalism and normativity -- Moral naturalism and three grades of normativity -- The Ring of Gyges : overridingness and the unity of reason -- The normativity of self-grounded reason.…”
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God and evolution fundamental questions of Christian evolutionism / by Życiński, Józef

Table of Contents: “…Biology and metaphysics in Charles Darwin's conception of evolution -- Fundamentalisms and evolution -- Elements of fundamentalism in atheistic evolutionism -- Evolution and Christian thought in dialogue according to the teaching of John Paul II -- Ontological naturalism and the role of supervenience in evolution -- Varieties of teleology in the philosophical interpretation of nature -- Physical necessity and the teleological structure of the universe -- Discontinuity and non-linearity in evolution -- The God of an evolving nature -- The ontological interpretation of the immanence of God in nature -- The cosmic kenosis of God -- The prehistory of rational man -- Sociobiological explanations of the essence of human culture -- The anthropological meaning of the truth about original sin.…”
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Religion or halakha the philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik / by Schwartz, Dov

Table of Contents: “…The opening of Halakhic man : a covert dialogue with homo religiosus -- Homo religiosus: between religion and cognition -- The first paradigm of homo religiosus : Maimonides -- The second paradigm of homo religiosus : Kant -- Halakhic man as cognitive man -- The negation of metaphysics and of the messianic idea -- Mysticism, Kabbalah, and Hasidism -- Halakhic cognition and the norm -- Halakhic man's personality structure -- Religiosity after cognition : all-inclusive consciousness -- Myth as metaphor : halakhic man as a creator of worlds -- Change or interpretation: repentance as creativity -- On providence and prophecy -- Halakhic man after twenty years : what has changed?.…”
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Philosophical witnessing the Holocaust as presence / by Lang, Berel

Table of Contents: “…Philosophical witnessing: "-- and only I have survived to tell you" -- Truth at risk and the Holocaust's response -- Evil and understanding: a Holocaust dilemma -- Jaspers' Die Schuldfrage: a presence early and late -- Holocaust-representation in the genre of silence -- Representation and misrepresentation: on or about the Holocaust -- Applied ethics, post-Holocaust -- The Jewish declaration of war against the Nazis -- From the Holocaust to group rights: minorities in a majority world -- Metaphysical racism (or: biological warfare by other means) -- Hyphenated-Jews and the anxiety of identity -- Reconciliation: not revenge, not forgiveness, perhaps not even justice -- Afterword: wound and scar.…”
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Philosophical witnessing the Holocaust as presence / by Lang, Berel

Table of Contents: “…Philosophical witnessing: "-- and only I have survived to tell you" -- Truth at risk and the Holocaust's response -- Evil and understanding: a Holocaust dilemma -- Jaspers' Die Schuldfrage: a presence early and late -- Holocaust-representation in the genre of silence -- Representation and misrepresentation: on or about the Holocaust -- Applied ethics, post-Holocaust -- The Jewish declaration of war against the Nazis -- From the Holocaust to group rights: minorities in a majority world -- Metaphysical racism (or: biological warfare by other means) -- Hyphenated-Jews and the anxiety of identity -- Reconciliation: not revenge, not forgiveness, perhaps not even justice -- Afterword: wound and scar.…”
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Religion or halakha the philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik / by Schwartz, Dov

Table of Contents: “…The opening of Halakhic man : a covert dialogue with homo religiosus -- Homo religiosus: between religion and cognition -- The first paradigm of homo religiosus : Maimonides -- The second paradigm of homo religiosus : Kant -- Halakhic man as cognitive man -- The negation of metaphysics and of the messianic idea -- Mysticism, Kabbalah, and Hasidism -- Halakhic cognition and the norm -- Halakhic man's personality structure -- Religiosity after cognition : all-inclusive consciousness -- Myth as metaphor : halakhic man as a creator of worlds -- Change or interpretation: repentance as creativity -- On providence and prophecy -- Halakhic man after twenty years : what has changed?.…”
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John Brown in memory and myth / by Daigh, Michael, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Dies irae, dies illa -- The means to real peace -- Upon these stones -- Like ashes in the fall -- The revelation of John Brown -- The metaphysics of the hangman -- Where faith is needed -- The history of an error -- The last witness.…”
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