Approaches to Metaphysics

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Sweet, William (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2004.
• Σειρά: Studies in Philosophy and Religion ; 26
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Religion.; History.; Religion > Philosophy.; Phenomenology.; Philosophy, general.; History, general.; Philosophy of Religion.; Religious Studies, general.

Today, when systematic philosophy - and reason itself - are challenged both outside of and within philosophy, is it still possible to do metaphysics? This volume provides a broad perspective on contemporary approaches to the nature and the fundamental questions of metaphysics. Drawing on scholars fr...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: Taking Metaphysics Seriously
• Introduction: Taking Metaphysics Seriously
• Issues in Classical Metaphysics
• Does Being Have a Nature? (Or: Metaphysics as a Science of the Real)
• Logic and Metaphysics in German Philosophy from Melanchthon to Hegel
• Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Pre-Established Harmony
• Modern Challenges to the Scope of Metaphysics
• The Integration of History and Metaphysics
• Suffering, Metaphysics, and Nietzsche’s Path to the Holy
• Can ‘Creation’ Be a Metaphysical Concept?
• Metaphysics West and East: Bosanquet and Sankara
• On the Road to Metaphysics — Freedom, Agency, and Existence
• Metaphysics and the Origins of Arendt’s Account of Evil and Human Freedom
• Agents, Causes, and Explanations: The Idea of a Metaphysical System
• Speculative and Analytical Philosophy, Theories of Existence, and the Generalization of the Mathematical Function
• Metaphysical Theories in a Contemporary Context
• Jacques Maritain and the Metaphysics of Plato
• Metaphysics and Idealism
• Empiricism: Principles and Problems
• The Possibility of Metaphysics
• Metaphysics as “De Insolubilibus”
• Designing Metaphysics.