A Path into Metaphysics

<p>List of Figures<br/> <br/>Preface<br/> <br/>Introduction<br/> <br/><b>PART ONE: HUMANNESS METAPHYSICS AND BEING </b><br/> <br/><b>1. Secular Meditations </b><br/> <br/> <blockquote> <br/>Death<br/> Birth<br/> Embodiment<br/> Consciousness<br/> Self-Identity<br/> Space<br/> Time<br/> Interconnectedness<br/> </blockquote> <br/><b>2. The Many Dimensions of Humanness </b><br/> <br/> <blockquote> <br/>Experience and Conceptualization<br/> Flatland: An Imaginative Model<br/> Imagination and Judgment<br/> Intentionality<br/> Sensing<br/> Conceptualization<br/> Reference to Being<br/> Implicit Features of Inwardness<br/> </blockquote> <br/><b>3. Toward a Definition of Humanness </b><br/> <br/> <blockquote> <br/>Observational Differences<br/> The Proximate Inner Ground: Rationality<br/> The Ultimate Ground: Metaphysicality<br/> Soul as Center of Meaning<br/> The Human Being as the Sick Animal<br/> The Human Being as Religious Animal<br/> The Human Being as Historical<br/> </blockquote> <br/><b>4. Metaphysics and Practicality </b><br/> <br/> <blockquote> <br/>The Meaning of Practicality<br/> Immanence<br/> Transcendence<br/> Relativity of Norms<br/> Levels of Transcendence<br/> Subjectivity and the Sacred<br/> Immanence and Transcendence<br/> Metaphysics and Practicality<br/> </blockquote> <br/><b>5. Abstract and Concrete </b><br/> <br/> <blockquote> <br/>Identifying the Context of the Terms<br/> Bodiliness and Concreteness<br/> Concreteness and Universality<br/> Object Subject Praxis<br/> </blockquote> <b>PART TWO: READING THE TRADITION </b><br/>Section A. The Ancient-Medieval Tradition<br/> <br/><b>6. Parmenides </b><br/> <br/> <blockquote> <br/>Heart as Starting Point<br/> The Logic of Being<br/> Historical Aftermath<br/> Heidegger's Approach<br/> </blockquote> <br/><b>7. Plato </b><br/> <br/> <blockquote> <br/>Metaphor and Allegory<br/> Dreaming in the Cave<br/> In the Light<br/> Geometry as Paradigm<br/> Eros and the Good<br/> Epilogue on Plotinus<br/> </blockquote> <br/><b>8. Aristotle </b><br/> <br/> <blockquote> <br/>Empiricism and the Principles of Changing Being<br/> The Hierarchy of Changing Being<br/> Knowing and Being<br/> Revisiting the One and the Good<br/> </blockquote> <br/><b>9. Aquinas </b><br/> <br/> <blockquote> <br/>Being and the Sensorily Given<br/> Essence-<i>Esse</i> and God<br/> Assimilation and Transformation of Aristotle<br/> The Mystical<br/> Analogy and the Transcendentals<br/> Presence to Being<br/> </blockquote> <br/>Section B. The Modern Tradition<br/> <br/><b>10. Rene Descartes </b><br/> <br/> <blockquote> <br/>Methodic Doubt and the Cogito<br/> Being and God<br/> Cogito World God<br/> Response<br/> </blockquote> <br/><b>11. Baruch Spinoza </b><br/> <br/> <blockquote> <br/>Being as a Single Substance<br/> Freedom<br/> Unity<br/> Response<br/> </blockquote> <br/><b>12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz </b><br/> <br/> <blockquote> <br/>The Monad<br/> Hierarchy<br/> First Principles<br/> Response<br/> </blockquote> <br/><b>13. Immanuel Kant </b><br/> <br/> <blockquote> <br/>The Ground of Kant's Thought<br/> Sensibility<br/> Categories<br/> Reason<br/> The Moral Order<br/> Critique of Judgment<br/> Response<br/> </blockquote> <br/><b>14. G.W.F. Hegel </b><br/> <br/> <blockquote> <br/>The Comprehension of Christian Revelation<br/> The <i>Phenomenology of Spirit</i><br/> The Logic of the Logos<br/> Nature and Spirit<br/> Absolute Spirit<br/> Response<br/> </blockquote> <br/><b>15. Alfred North Whitehead</b><br/><b> </b><br/> <blockquote> <br/>Whitehead and Modern Physics<br/> Whitehead and Plato<br/> Response<br/> </blockquote> <br/><b>16. Martin Heidegger </b><br/> <br/> <blockquote> <br/>Situating Heidegger<br/> Being Truth and Being-in-the-World<br/> The Light of Being<br/> Historicity and Authenticity<br/> The Play of the Fourfold<br/> The History of Truth and the Return to Meditative Thinking<br/> Response<br/> </blockquote> <br/><b>Epilogue: The Metaphysical Basis of Dialogical Pluralism </b