Tag: Metaphysics

Free Download Religion after metaphysics By Wrathall, Mark A
2003 | 194 Pages | ISBN: 0521824982 | EPUB + PDF | 2 MB
How should we understand religion, and what place should it hold, in an age in which metaphysics has come into disrepute? In this volume, leading philosophers address the decline of metaphysics and the space which this decline has opened for non-theological understandings of religion.

Free Download acob Joseph, "Aristotelian Metaphysics as a Unifying Paradigm for 21st Century Science: Common Sense-ible Science"
English | ISBN: 1527567281 | 2024 | 111 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Are there foundational principles that apply to all human knowledge and are accessible to all? Are entities and causes that lie outside the material realm mere myth? How can we remedy the fragmentation of knowledge and the ensuing schism between a perceived scientific elite and non-scientists? Do we have a framework to remedy this situation? This book updates the foundational principles of science laid down by Aristotle in his metaphysics to provide a rational framework and a "common language" for those inside and outside of the modern scientific enterprise. The book demonstrates how Aristotelian metaphysics approaches knowledge in a methodical, unifying, and yet open manner, seeking answers to the question why? and not just to the question how?, and accepting rational answers even if they lie outside the box of material entities and causes. This timely book is both an accessible primer to the foundations of human knowledge and an exhortation for a unified approach to knowledge.

Free Download Derong Chen, "Reconstructing Metaphorical Metaphysics in Traditional Chinese Philosophy: Meta-One and Harmony"
English | ISBN: 1666922048 | 2023 | 210 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Based on the influential metaphysical concepts of yin-yang, dao, and li in traditional Chinese philosophy and a clarification of their metaphysical objects, methods, and purpose, Reconstructing Metaphorical Metaphysics in Traditional Chinese Philosophy: Meta-One and Harmony proposes three new metaphysical categories: Meta-One (元一), Multi-One (殊一), and Utter-One (全一). These categories describe three dynamic stages of development, which are associated with four dynamical models of harmony: potential and factual, temporary and permanent, partial and full harmonies, and four models of static harmonies (unitary, binary, ternary, and multiple). In order to outline methodological principles for metaphorical metaphysics, Derong Chen classifies general metaphysical methods into direct vs. indirect, positive vs. negative, and logical vs. metaphorical methods, and establishes various methodological principles based on the features of Meta-One, Multi-One, and Utter-One, respectively. Chen argues that this new system of metaphorical metaphysics is rooted in and developed from traditional Chinese philosophy and is the metaphysical foundation of natural, social-political, ethical, moral philosophy, and aesthetics in the twenty-first century.

Free Download Approaches to Metaphysics by William Sweet
English | PDF (True) | 2004 | 336 Pages | ISBN : 140202181X | 2.8 MB
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 from continental Europe, Asia, Canada, the United States, and Great Britain, and representing a variety of philosophical cultures and traditions, this volume surveys and extends work in metaphysics and its implications for broader philosophical concerns (e.g., in ethics and social philosophy, in mathematics and logic, and in epistemology). It also addresses such questions as the role of history and historicity in undertaking metaphysics, the nature of metaphysics, the priority of metaphysics over epistemology, and the challenges of empiricism and postmodernism.

Free Download Stefano Marino, "Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language: Essays on Heidegger and Gadamer"
English | ISBN: 144387650X | 2015 | 155 pages | PDF | 593 KB
Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer undoubtedly belong among the most important representatives of twentieth-century phenomenological hermeneutics, which represents, in turn, one of the major traditions within so-called continental philosophy. Respectively teacher and pupil, during their long and philosophically intense lives and careers Heidegger and Gadamer greatly contributed to the development of philosophical thought in our age, providing significant and often decisive contributions in various fields of philosophical inquiry. Their main works, Being and Time (1927) and Truth and Method (1960), respectively amount to the great classics of contemporary philosophy, both being extraordinarily influential books without which the history of twentieth- and also twenty-first century philosophy as we know it would not be conceivable. This book addresses a number of problems concerning aesthetics, metaphysics, language and philosophical anthropology, by focusing on Heideggers and Gadamers specific contributions in these fields, and by establishing fruitful and original comparisons between their views and those of other relevant thinkers of our time, such as Hannah Arendt, Richard Rorty and John McDowell. The book adopts a comparative approach that portrays the complex philosophical problems and concepts at the core of this investigation from various points of view, thus broadening the philosophical horizon, generating a more comprehensive perspective, and underlining the compatibility of different philosophical views.

Free Download Aristotle: Metaphysics Theta: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary (Clarendon Aristotle) (Clarendon Aristotle Series) By Philosoph Aristoteles; Stephen Makin
2006 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0198751087 | PDF | 2 MB
Stephen Makin presents a clear and accurate new translation of an influential and much-discussed part of Aristotle’s philosophical system, accompanied by an analytical and critical commentary focusing on philosophical issues. In Book Theta of the Metaphysics Aristotle introduces the concepts of actuality and potentiality-which were to remain central to philosophical analysis into the modern era-and explores the distinction between the actual and the potential.

Free Download Jonathan O. Chimakonam, "African Metaphysics, Epistemology and a New Logic: A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 3030724441 | 2021 | 245 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book focuses on African metaphysics and epistemology, and is an exercise in decoloniality. The authors describe their approach to "decoloniality" as an intellectual repudiation of coloniality, using the method of conversational thinking grounded in Ezumezu logic. Focusing specifically on both African metaphysics and African epistemology, the authors put forward theories formulated to stimulate fresh debates and extend the frontiers of learning in the field. They emphasize that this book is not a project in comparative philosophy, nor is it geared towards making Africa/ns the object/subjects of philosophy. Rather, the book highlights and discusses philosophical insights that have been produced from the African perspective, which the authors argue must be further developed in order to achieve decoloniality in the field of philosophy more broadly.

Free Download Jason T. Eberl, "The Nature of Human Persons: Metaphysics and Bioethics "
English | ISBN: 0268107734 | 2020 | 422 pages | EPUB | 842 KB
Is there a shared nature common to all human beings? What essential qualities might define this nature? These questions are among the most widely discussed topics in the history of philosophy and remain subjects of perennial interest and controversy. The Nature of Human Persons offers a metaphysical investigation of the composition of the human essence. For a human being to exist, does it require an immaterial mind, a physical body, a functioning brain, a soul? Jason Eberl also considers the criterion of identity for a developing human being―that is, what is required for a human being to continue existing as a person despite undergoing physical and psychological changes over time? Eberl’s investigation presents and defends a theoretical perspective from the thirteenth-century philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas. Advancing beyond descriptive historical analysis, this book places Aquinas’s account of human nature into direct comparison with several prominent contemporary theories: substance dualism, emergentism, animalism, constitutionalism, four-dimensionalism, and embodied mind theory. These theories inform various conclusions regarding when human beings first come into existence―at conception, during gestation, or after birth―and how we ought to define death for human beings. Finally, each of these viewpoints offers a distinctive rationale as to whether, and if so how, human beings may survive death. Ultimately, Eberl argues that the Thomistic account of human nature addresses the matters of human nature and survival in a much more holistic and desirable way than the other theories and offers a cohesive portrait of one’s continued existence from conception through life to death and beyond.

Free Download Donnchadh O’Conaill, "Substance (Elements in Metaphysics)"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1108940749 | PDF | pages: 82 | 1.4 mb
Substance has long been one of the key categories in metaphysics. This Element focuses on contemporary work on substance, and in particular on contemporary substance ontologies, metaphysical systems in which substance is one of the fundamental categories and individual substances are among the basic building blocks of reality. The topics discussed include the different metaphysical roles which substances have been tasked with playing; different critieria of substancehood (accounts of what is it to be a substance); arguments for and against the existence of substances; and different accounts of which entities, if any, count as substances.

Free Download Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics: Critical Edition of the Arabic Version, French Translation and English Introduction
by Maroun Aouad
Français, English | 2023 | ISBN: 9004515755 | 650 Pages | True PDF | 5.07 MB