{"product_id":"a-path-into-metaphysics-robert-e-wood-9780791403068","title":"A Path into Metaphysics: Phenomenological, Hermeneutical, and Dialogical Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE: HUMANNESS, METAPHYSICS, AND BEING\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Secular Meditations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeath\u003cbr\u003e Birth\u003cbr\u003e Embodiment\u003cbr\u003e Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e Self-Identity\u003cbr\u003e Space\u003cbr\u003e Time\u003cbr\u003e Interconnectedness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. The Many Dimensions of Humanness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Toward a Definition of Humanness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Metaphysics and Practicality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Abstract and Concrete\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdentifying the Context of the Terms\u003cbr\u003e Bodiliness and Concreteness\u003cbr\u003e Concreteness and Universality\u003cbr\u003e Object, Subject, Praxis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePART TWO: READING THE TRADITION\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection A. The Ancient-Medieval Tradition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Parmenides\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Heart\" as Starting Point\u003cbr\u003e The Logic of Being\u003cbr\u003e Historical Aftermath\u003cbr\u003e Heidegger's Approach\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Plato\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Aristotle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Aquinas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection B. The Modern Tradition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Rene Descartes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMethodic Doubt and the Cogito\u003cbr\u003e Being and God\u003cbr\u003e Cogito, World, God\u003cbr\u003e Response\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11. Baruch Spinoza\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeing as a Single Substance\u003cbr\u003e Freedom\u003cbr\u003e Unity\u003cbr\u003e Response\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Monad\u003cbr\u003e Hierarchy\u003cbr\u003e First Principles\u003cbr\u003e Response\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13. Immanuel Kant\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14. G.W.F. Hegel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15. Alfred North Whitehead\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhitehead and Modern Physics\u003cbr\u003e Whitehead and Plato\u003cbr\u003e Response\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e16. Martin Heidegger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEpilogue: The Metaphysical Basis of Dialogical Pluralism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBibliography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert E. Wood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791403068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791403068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/05\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d","brand":"Robert E. 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