Metaphysics: Selected Problems of Metaphysics and Ontology

✍ Scribed by Renáta Kišonová

• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 110
• Series: Uni Slovakia
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The presented text offers a basic overview of the terms and topics of the very wide philosophical discipline called metaphysics. The text includes, besides an overview of individual problems, reflections to consider and recommended literature. Readers will become familiar with the basic terms (metaphysics, ontology, existence, being), with the metaphysics of archaic nations, Parmenides’s approach to understand being as The One, the understanding of time and events of the Greeks, the problem of categories according to Aristotle and Kant, the problem of intuition and fundamental ontology.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Clarification of Terms
2.1. Metaphysics
2.2. “Being” as a Term
2.3. Ontology
2.4. Existence
3. Metaphysics and Ontology of Archaic Nations
4. Being as The One. Parmenides
5. Time and Events in the Greeks. Pre-Socratic Philosophers and Plato
6. Metaphysics as a Categorical Description
6.1. Aristotelian Categories
6.2. Kant’s Categories
6.3. More Recent Refl ections
7. Criticism of Metaphysics
7.1. Metaphysics and Postmodernism
8. Metaphysics as a Way to God
8.1. Negative Theology of Dionysius the Areopagite
8.2. Theocentrism of J.S. Eriugena
8.3. Ontological Proof of God according to Anselm of Canterbury
8.4. Five Ways to God of Thomas Aquinas
9. Problems of the Universals
10. Metaphysics and Problem of Intuition. Henri Bergson
10.1. Duration
10.2. Ontology of the Past
11. Metaphysics and Problem of Being. Martin Heidegger
11.1. The Meaning of Being
11.2. “Phenomenon“ as an Expression
11.3. “Logos” as an Expression
11.4. Phenomenology
11.5. Fundamental Ontology
11.6. Problem of Metaphysics after the “Turn”
Conclusion
Bibliography