Philosophy as Metaphysics: The Torino Lectures (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783161557347)

What makes philosophy metaphysical? Understood as the search for truth, philosophy has led those seeking it to the question of Being, says Gunter Figal. He shows that because this devotion to truth and Being are the heart of metaphysics, it is what makes up philosophy's metaphysical character. Figal embraces this, and, leaving arguments for simple affirmation aside, offers instead a critical discussion of the positions adopted by metaphysical philosophy's founding fathers, Parmenides, Plato and Aristotle. Alongside a phenomenological transformation of the latter's ontology, Figal also sets out why he regards metaphysics as just one philosophical perspective among others, and not as a dominating first philosophy?. The outcome is philosophy as a de-centered, non-hierarchical and liberating project.

Author: Gunter Figal
ISBN-10: 3161557344
ISBN-13: 9783161557347
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2019
Pages: 177
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.50w x 0.40d