Philosophy : Metaphysics

This first comparative study of the philosophers and literary critics, Walter Benjamin and Mikhail Bakhtin, focuses on the two thinkers’ conceptions of experience and form, investigating parallels between Bakhtin’s theories of responsibility, dialogue, and the novel, and Benjamin’s theories of translation, montage, allegory, and the aura. more...

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Die vorliegende Arbeit zielt darauf ab, Momente der Husserlschen PhAnomenologie hervorzuheben, in denen diese an ihre Grenzen gerAt. Die Husserlsche Analyse stAAt in unterschiedlichen Bereichen auf PhAnomene, die paradoxerweise nur in ihrer eigentA1/4mlichen UnzugAnglichkeit zugAnglich sind. Der Ausweis dieser GrenzphAnomene, die in der Husserl-Literatur bisher noch nicht systematisch untersucht worden sind, steht im Zentrum der Arbeit. Als Leitfaden der Untersuchung dient der Ich-Begriff, der in seiner voller Konkretion analysiert wird. Um dem Ich-Begriff bei Husserl gerecht zu werden, ist es erforderlich, auf seine vielfAltigen Dimensionen einzugehen: PassivitAt, FaktizitAt, IntersubjektivitAt und Zeit werden einer detaillierten Analyse unterzogen. Die Erforschung dieser vielfAltigen Dimensionen des Ich deckt eigentA1/4mliche AoeberschA1/4sse auf, die A1/4ber jede Form von Anschauung und Sinn hinausgehen und somit die Grenzen der jeweils bestehenden Ordnung sprengen. In den unterschiedlichen Kontexten hat der Verfasser sich systematisch mit phAnomenologisch orientierten Autoren zeitgenAssischer Philosophie (insbesondere LA(c)vinas, Derrida, Bernet, Richir und Waldenfels) auseinandergesetzt. Diese Auseinandersetzung zielt nicht nur darauf ab, die Husserlschen Texte neu zu befragen, sondern sie beabsichtigt auch, die Fruchtbarkeit der Husserlschen Analysen fA1/4r die zeitgenAssische Philosophie hervorzuheben. more...

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1. The Mystery of the Physical. 1. A Brief Exposition of the Scientiphical Metaphysic. 2. Three Kinds of Basic Property and the Denial of Qualities. 3. The Denial of Qualities, Particles in Space and Spaces in a Plenum, etc . 2. A Humanly Realistic Philosophy. 1. I Am a Real Thinking Being and You Are Another. 2. We Are Differentially Responsive Individuals. 3. Against Descartes, We Are Intermittently Conscious Individuals, etc. 3. Demystifying the Physical. 1. We Recall the Denial of Quality and the Mystery of the Physical. 2. Spatially Extensible Qualities and Intelligible Propensities. 3. Spatially Extensible Qualities Are Perfectly Pervasive Properties etc. 4. A Cornucopia of Quality. 1. The Qualities Most Available to Me Are My Own When Consciously Experiencing. 2. Our Power to Experience Promotes Our Conceiving Concrete Individuals. 3. Our Power to Experience Visually Promotes Our Conceiving Concrete Spatial Things, etc. 5. A Plentitude of Power. 1. The Idea That All Propensities Concern Something as to Quality. 2. Power-directed Powers (Propensities with Respect to Propensities). 3. Power-directed Powers May Distinctively Distinguish among Other Powers, etc. 6. Is Free Will Compatible With Scientiphicalism?. 1. A Few Points about Real Choice. 2. Free Will and Determinism, Real Choice and Inevitabilism: Not an Urgent Issue. 3. A Widely Disturbing Argument Presents a More Urgent Issue, etc. 7. Why We Really May be Immaterial Souls. 1. Recalling the Problem of the Many. 2. A Couple of Comments on That Comparatively Uninteresting Problem. 3. The Experiential Problem of the Many?, etc. 8. Why We May Become Disembodied But To No Avail. 1. Why We May Become Disembodied Souls, with the Deaths of Our Brains and Bodies. 2. Even While You May Be an Immaterial Soul, Are You really an Existential OTHERON?. 3 Immaterial OTHERONS Are Just as Problematic as Material OTHERONS, etc. 9. The Problem Of Our Unconscious Quality. 1. Physical Objects Aptly Qualitied, Experiencers Di more...

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Thomas Aquinas has always been viewed as a highly importantfigure in Western Civilization, and the chief philosopher of RomanCatholicism. In recent decades there has been a renewed interest inAquinas’ thought as scholars have been exploring the relevance of histhought to contemporary philosophical problems.The book will be of interest not only to historians of medievalphilosophy, but to philosophers who work on problems associated withthe nature of material objects. Because human beings are typicallyunderstood to be a kind of material object, the book will also be ofinterest to philosophers working on topics in the philosophy of religion,philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of human nature. Although thework contains the kinds of details that are necessary for a work of historical scholarship, it is written in amanner that makes it approachable for undergraduate students in philosophy and so it would be awelcomed addition to any university library. more...

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Aristotle's works have influenced science, religion, and philosophy for nearly two thousand years. He could be thought of as the father of logical thought. Aristotle wrote: 'There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses.' He wrote that everything that is learned in life is learned through sensory perception. Aristotle was the first to establish the founding principle of logic. The great writer Dante called Aristotle 'The Master of those who know.' The Roman writer Cicero viewed Aristotle's work so highly that he called them 'A River of Gold'. more...

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