First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature

First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature

Author: F. W. J. Schelling

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 079148551X

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Appearing here in English for the first time, this is F. W. J. Schelling's vital document of the attempts of German Idealism and Romanticism to recover a deeper relationship between humanity and nature and to overcome the separation between mind and matter induced by the modern reductivist program. Written in 1799 and building upon his earlier work, First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature provides the most inclusive exposition of Schelling's philosophy of the natural world. He presents a startlingly contemporary model of an expanding and contracting universe; a unified theory of electricity, gravity magnetism, and chemical forces; and, perhaps most importantly, a conception of nature as a living and organic whole.


Metaphysics

Metaphysics

Author: Mieczysław Albert Krąpiec

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13:

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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

Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics

Author: Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1136868909

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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.


Outlines of Indian Philosophy

Outlines of Indian Philosophy

Author: M. Hiriyanna

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9788120810860

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The beginnings of Indian Philosophy take us very far back to about the middle of the second millennium before christ. The speculative activity begun so early was continued till a century or two ago so that the history that is narrated in the following pag


Aristotle Metaphysics

Aristotle Metaphysics

Author: Aristotle

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13:

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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.


Outlines of Metaphysics

Outlines of Metaphysics

Author: John Stuart MacKenzie

Publisher: Rolland Press

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1409766233

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.


Macroscopic Metaphysics

Macroscopic Metaphysics

Author: Paul Needham

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-01-08

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 3319709992

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This book is about our ordinary concept of matter in the form of enduring continuants and the processes in which they are involved in the macroscopic realm. It emphasises what science rather than philosophical intuition tells us about the world, and chemistry rather than the physics that is more usually encountered in philosophical discussions. The central chapters dealing with the nature of matter pursue key steps in the historical development of scientific conceptions of chemical substance. Like many contemporary discussions of material objects, it relies heavily on mereology. The classical principles are applied to the mereological structure of regions of space, intervals of time, processes and quantities of matter. Quantities of matter, which don’t gain or lose parts over time, are distinguished from individuals, which are typically constituted of different quantities of matter at different times. The proper treatment of the temporal aspect of the features of material objects is a central issue in this book, which is addressed by investigating the conditions governing the application of predicates relating time and other entities. Of particular interest here are relations between quantities of matter and times expressing substance kind, phase and mixture. Modal aspects of these features are taken up in the final chapter.


Metaphysics to Metafictions

Metaphysics to Metafictions

Author: Paul S. Miklowitz

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1998-08-06

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780791438787

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