Outlines of Metaphysic


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Hermann Lotze was a german philosopher and logician who lived and worked in the latter part of the nineteenth century. He contributed a great deal to the philosophy of science and was well-versed not only in philosophy but also in medicine and biology. His book is the text of several of his lectures where he explained the ideas he had about the rules governing the universe.







Outlines of Metaphysics


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Metaphysics


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Metaphysics, in its classical version, deals with the basic understanding of reality i.e. things as concretely existing; it tries to give the answers to the following questions: What is being? Which are the transcendental proprieties of being and how to understand them? What is the structure of being, founding the problem of the causes and casuality as such? How to understand the analogy of being and connected with it the analogy of knowledge, in the ultimate perspective of the existence of God? The solutions of these problems go through the understanding of the interpretations of being given by Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas and modern thinkers.




Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics


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Based on original translations of passages from the works of three major thinkers of the classical Indian school of Advaita (Sankara, Vacaspati and Sri Harsa), but addressing issues found in Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein and contemporary analytic philosophers, this book argues for a philosophical position it calls 'non-realism'. This is the view that an independent, external world must be assumed if the features of cognition are to be explained, but that it cannot be proved that there is such a world, independently of an appeal to cognition itself. This position is constructed against idealist denials of externality, realist arguments for an independent world and the sceptical denial of the coherence of cognition.




Aristotle Metaphysics


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Presents the full text of "Metaphysics," by Aristotle, presented by the Perseus Project of the Department of Classics at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Includes author information and help for texts and text tools. Offers Greek text with morphological links. Links to the home page of the Perseus Project.




The FOUR DIMENSIONS OF PHILOSOPHY


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Adler's 53rd book explores philosophy--its relation to and difference from other disciplines, such as history, mathematics, empirical science, and even poetry--and acts as an extension of the author's classic works on the conditions that that make philosophy workable.




The Metaphysics


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The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hardheaded view that all processes are ultimately material. He argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms, and in so doing he probed some of the deepest questions of philosophy: What is existence? How is change possible? And are there certain things that must exist for anything else to exist at all? The seminal notions discussed in The Metaphysics - of 'substance' and associated concepts of matter and form, essence and accident, potentiality and actuality - have had a profound and enduring influence, and laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy.




Outlines of Aesthetics


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Metaphysics to Metafictions


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Examines the key role played by Nietzsche in the undoing of the Hegelian system of totality.