Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition by Perl

Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004264205)

Vendor: Eric Perl
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Format: Hardcover
$165.00
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Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition by Perl

Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition

$165.00
Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition by Perl

Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition

$165.00
Format: Hardcover
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In Thinking Being, Eric Perl articulates central ideas and arguments regarding the nature of reality in Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Aquinas. He shows that, throughout this tradition, these ideas proceed from and return to the indissoluble togetherness of thought and being, first clearly expressed by Parmenides. The emphasis throughout is on continuity rather than opposition: Aristotle appears as a follower of Plato in identifying being as intelligible form, and Aquinas as a follower of Plotinus in locating the first principle "beyond being". Hence Neoplatonism, itself a coherent development of Platonic thought, comes to be seen as the mainstream of classical philosophy. Perl's book thus contributes to a revisionist understanding of the fundamental outlines of the western tradition in metaphysics.

Author: Eric Perl
ISBN-10: 9004264205
ISBN-13: 9789004264205
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2014
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 0.70d
By Eric Perl
By Eric Perl
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Eric D. Perl, Ph.D. (1991), Yale University, is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. He has published many articles on Plato and Neoplatonism and a monograph, Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite (State University of New York, 2007).

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