A Path into Metaphysics

Robert E. Wood (Autor)

State University of New York Press (Editora)

R$ 268,92

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Descrição

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

Sobre o Livro

Explora questões centrais da condição humana, como consciência, identidade e temporalidade, a partir de meditações seculares e do problema da encarnação.

Na segunda parte, o autor articula dimensões da humanness envolvendo racionalidade, metafísica e a noção de “alma” como centro de sentido.

Leitura das tradições antigas e medievais focaliza Parmênides e Platão, abordando metáfora, geometria e a relação entre o abstrato e o concreto, além de oferecer análise sobre immanência e transcendência.