{"product_id":"a-path-into-metaphysics-phenomenological-hermeneutical-and-dialogical-studies-9780791403068","title":"A Path into Metaphysics: Phenomenological, Hermeneutical, and Dialogical Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert E. Wood\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Metaphysics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE: HUMANNESS, METAPHYSICS, AND BEING \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Secular Meditations \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDeath\u003cbr\u003e Birth\u003cbr\u003e Embodiment\u003cbr\u003e Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e Self-Identity\u003cbr\u003e Space\u003cbr\u003e Time\u003cbr\u003e Interconnectedness\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. The Many Dimensions of Humanness \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eExperience and Conceptualization\u003cbr\u003e Flatland: An Imaginative Model\u003cbr\u003e Imagination and Judgment\u003cbr\u003e Intentionality\u003cbr\u003e Sensing\u003cbr\u003e Conceptualization\u003cbr\u003e Reference to Being\u003cbr\u003e Implicit Features of Inwardness\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Toward a Definition of Humanness \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eObservational Differences\u003cbr\u003e The Proximate Inner Ground: Rationality\u003cbr\u003e The Ultimate Ground: Metaphysicality\u003cbr\u003e \"Soul\" as Center of Meaning\u003cbr\u003e The Human Being as the Sick Animal\u003cbr\u003e The Human Being as Religious Animal\u003cbr\u003e The Human Being as Historical\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Metaphysics and Practicality \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe Meaning of Practicality\u003cbr\u003e Immanence\u003cbr\u003e Transcendence\u003cbr\u003e Relativity of Norms\u003cbr\u003e Levels of Transcendence\u003cbr\u003e Subjectivity and the Sacred\u003cbr\u003e Immanence and Transcendence\u003cbr\u003e Metaphysics and Practicality\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Abstract and Concrete \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIdentifying the Context of the Terms\u003cbr\u003e Bodiliness and Concreteness\u003cbr\u003e Concreteness and Universality\u003cbr\u003e Object, Subject, Praxis\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePART TWO: READING THE TRADITION \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection A. The Ancient-Medieval Tradition\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Parmenides \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Heart\" as Starting Point\u003cbr\u003e The Logic of Being\u003cbr\u003e Historical Aftermath\u003cbr\u003e Heidegger's Approach\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Plato \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMetaphor and Allegory\u003cbr\u003e Dreaming in the Cave\u003cbr\u003e In the Light\u003cbr\u003e Geometry as Paradigm\u003cbr\u003e Eros and the Good\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue on Plotinus\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Aristotle \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEmpiricism and the Principles of Changing Being\u003cbr\u003e The Hierarchy of Changing Being\u003cbr\u003e Knowing and Being\u003cbr\u003e Revisiting the One and the Good\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Aquinas \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBeing and the Sensorily Given\u003cbr\u003e Essence-\u003ci\u003eEsse\u003c\/i\u003e and God\u003cbr\u003e Assimilation and Transformation of Aristotle\u003cbr\u003e \"The Mystical\"\u003cbr\u003e Analogy and the Transcendentals\u003cbr\u003e Presence to Being\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSection B. The Modern Tradition\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Rene Descartes \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMethodic Doubt and the Cogito\u003cbr\u003e Being and God\u003cbr\u003e Cogito, World, God\u003cbr\u003e Response\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e11. Baruch Spinoza \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBeing as a Single Substance\u003cbr\u003e Freedom\u003cbr\u003e Unity\u003cbr\u003e Response\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe Monad\u003cbr\u003e Hierarchy\u003cbr\u003e First Principles\u003cbr\u003e Response\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e13. Immanuel Kant \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe Ground of Kant's Thought\u003cbr\u003e Sensibility\u003cbr\u003e Categories\u003cbr\u003e Reason\u003cbr\u003e The Moral Order\u003cbr\u003e Critique of Judgment\u003cbr\u003e Response\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e14. G.W.F. Hegel \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe Comprehension of Christian Revelation\u003cbr\u003e The \u003ci\u003ePhenomenology of Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Logic of the Logos\u003cbr\u003e Nature and Spirit\u003cbr\u003e Absolute Spirit\u003cbr\u003e Response\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e15. Alfred North Whitehead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhitehead and Modern Physics\u003cbr\u003e Whitehead and Plato\u003cbr\u003e Response\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e16. Martin Heidegger \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSituating Heidegger\u003cbr\u003e Being, Truth, and Being-in-the-World\u003cbr\u003e The Light of Being\u003cbr\u003e Historicity and Authenticity\u003cbr\u003e The Play of the Fourfold\u003cbr\u003e The History of Truth and the Return to Meditative Thinking\u003cbr\u003e Response\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEpilogue: The Metaphysical Basis of Dialogical Pluralism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615164842135,"sku":"9780791403068","price":3880.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780791403068.webp?v=1775098483","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-path-into-metaphysics-phenomenological-hermeneutical-and-dialogical-studies-9780791403068","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}