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Contents
Part 1 Disintegration of the Eastern Logic of Pantheism in Western Antiquity
1. Defining the Absolute in the Parmenidean Orbit
1. Pure Being
2. Nothing
3. Becoming
2. The Anonymous Theology of the Finite
1 . Positive Quality
2. Negative Quality
3. Something
4. Limit, Barrier, Finitude, and Contradiction
3. Anaximander and the Germination of the True Infinite
1. The False Infinite
2. The True Infinite and Anaximander
3. The Finite and the Infinite
4. Linguistic Ascent and the Dialectic
4. Classical Atomism: Thought Thinking Itself Multiplied
1. The Collapse of Being-for-Self
2. Transition from the One to the Many: A Logical Analysis
3. The Hebrew Fall and Ancient Greek Materialism
4. Four Faces of the One
5. Pythagoras and the Fifth Face of the One
6. Atomism
5. The Theology of Pure Quantity
1. From Quality to Quantity
2. The Purely Quantitative Definition of the Absolute
3. The Leibnizian Impossibility of Qualitatively Identical
Ones
4. From the Presocratic to the Neoplatonic One
5. Practical Fixation on Abstract Being-for-Self
6. Finite Quantity
7. Quantitative Infinity
6. Pythagoras and the Logic of Measure
1. Quantity and Measure
2. The Absolute as a Cosmic Scale of Quantified Qualities
3. Transition to Essence
4. Concluding Observations on the Logic of Being
Part 2: The Rise of Philosophies of Natural Science in Western Theism
7. Neoplatonism and the Logic of Identity
1 . Essence: Abstract and Concrete
2. Being-for-Self as the Highest Potential of the Absolute
3. The Principle of Determinability as the Main Positive
Lesson of the Logic
4. Reflection
5. Neoplatonism and the Theology of Identity
8. The Deterministic Theology of the Explanatory Ground
1. The Retreat from Identity-in-Difference to Abstract
Identity in the Theology of the Explanatory Ground
2. The Dialectic of Abstract Essentialism: Ambiguity in the
History of Philosophy
3. The Retreat from Concrete to Abstract Ground
4. Explanatory Grounds: Sufficient and Insufficient
5. The Self-Refutation of Determinism
9. The Phenomenalistic Definition of the Absolute
1. The Absolute as an Essential Sum of Interacting Things
or lnterpenetrating Elements
2. Phenomenal ism
3. Wholes and Parts
10. Scientific Realism and Self-Manifesting Actual Reality
1. The Absolute's Self-Actualization through
Self-Knowledge
2. Necessity
3. Spinoza and the Transition from Necessity to the
Self-Concept
4. Does the Dialectic of Defining the Absolute Have a
Conclusion
5. The Logic of Essence in Review
Part 3: Emancipation from Nature in the Infinite Freedom of Persons
11. The Subjective Self-Concept and Its Passage into Judgment
1. Introduction
2. The Self-Concept: Some Main Points
3. Judgment
4. The Dialectic of Judgments
5. Judgment Transcended 22
12. Theology of the Rational Syllogism
1. From Judging to Syllogistic Reasoning
2. Syllogistic Thinking and the Absolute Idea
3. The Theological Logic of the Syllogism
4. The Three Pansystematic Syllogisms of Speculative
Philosophy
5. Classification of Non-Rational Syllogisms
6. Constructive Syllogisms
13. The Objective Self-Concept
1. From Formal Syllogisms of the Understanding to
Rational Syllogisms
2. The Mechanical Object An Object of the Understanding
Recollected as Comical
3. The Autobiographical Prehistory of the Self-Concept
4. Mechanism and Atomism
5. Chemism and the Common Pursuit of Different Goals
6. External Teleology or Goal-Directed Action
7. Internal Teleology
8. Internal Teleology and the Objective Disjunctive
Syllogism of Exclusive Choice
9. Constructive and Reconstructive Syllogisms
10. Subjective, Objective, and Absolute Idealism
14. The Absolute Idea: The Career of Freedom Grasping Itself in
Pure Thought
1. The Absolute Idea
2. Human Rights
15. Recapitulation of the Logic
1. Basic Categories
2. Pantheistic Being-for-Self. Panextheistic Power, and
Panentheistic Being-in-and-for-Itself
3. Pathway of the Absolute's Self-Definition in Summary
16. Empirical versus Rational Order in the History of Philosophy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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