Complicated Presence

Complicated Presence
Author: Jussi Backman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2015-03-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438456506

From its Presocratic beginnings, Western philosophy concerned itself with a quest for unity both in terms of the systematization of knowledge and as a metaphysical search for a unity of being—two trends that can be regarded as converging and culminating in Hegel's system of absolute idealism. Since Hegel, however, the philosophical quest for unity has become increasingly problematic. Jussi Backman returns to that question in this book, examining the place of the unity of being in the work of Heidegger. Backman sketches a consistent picture of Heidegger as a thinker of unity who throughout his career in different ways attempted to come to terms with both Parmenides's and Aristotle's fundamental questions concerning the singularity or multiplicity of being—attempting to do so, however, in a "postmetaphysical" manner rooted in rather than above and beyond particular, situated beings. Through his analysis, Backman offers a new way of understanding the basic continuity of Heidegger's philosophical project and the interconnectedness of such key Heideggerian concepts as ecstatic temporality, the ontological difference, the turn (Kehre), the event (Ereignis), the fourfold (Geviert), and the analysis of modern technology.

One

One
Author: Graham Priest
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2014-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199688257

Explores philosophical questions concerning the one and the many, covering a wide range of issues in metaphysics and deploying techniques of paraconsistent logic while bringing together traditions of Western and Asian thought.

Gift and the Unity of Being

Gift and the Unity of Being
Author: Antonio Lopez
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 022790219X

Starting from both our originary experience of being given to ourselves and Jesus Christ's archetypal self-donation, 'Gift and the Unity of Being' elucidates the sense in which gift is the form of being's unity, while unity itself constitutes the permanence of the gift of being. In dialogue with ancient and modern philosophers and theologians, Lopez offers a synthetic, rather than systematic, account of the unity proper to being, the human person, God, and the relations among them. The book shows how contemplation of the triune God of love through Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit allows us to discover the eternal communion that being is and to which finite being is called. It also illustrates the sense in which God's gratuitousness unexpectedly offers thehuman person the possibility to recognize and embrace his origin and destiny, and thus he is given to see and taste in God's light the ever-fruitful, dramatic, and mysterious positivity of being.

The Concept of First Philosophy and the Unity of the Metaphysics of Aristotle

The Concept of First Philosophy and the Unity of the Metaphysics of Aristotle
Author: Giovanni Reale
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780873953856

Reale's monumental work establishes the exact dimensions of Aristotle's concept of first philosophy and proves the profound unity of concept that exists in Aristotle's Metaphysics. Reale's opposition to the genetic interpretation of the Metaphysics is an updated return to a more traditional view of Aristotle's work, one which runs counter to nearly all contemporary scholarship. Reale argues that Aristotle's first philosophy includes a study of being, a study of substance, a study of divine substance, and a study of principles and causes, all of which are integrated and dialectically reconciled.

Plato and the Divided Self

Plato and the Divided Self
Author: Rachel Barney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2012-02-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521899664

Investigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.

Aristotle and the Science of Nature

Aristotle and the Science of Nature
Author: Andrea Falcon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2005-09-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521854399

Exploration of Aristotle's philosophy of nature in the light of scholarly insights.

The Unity of Consciousness

The Unity of Consciousness
Author: Tim Bayne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191639885

In The Unity of Consciousness Tim Bayne draws on philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience in defence of the claim that consciousness is unified. In the first part of the book Bayne develops an account of what it means to say that consciousness is unified. Part II applies this account to a variety of cases - drawn from both normal and pathological forms of experience - in which the unity of consciousness is said to break down. Bayne argues that the unity of consciousness remains intact in each of these cases. Part III explores the implications of the unity of consciousness for theories of consciousness, for the sense of embodiment, and for accounts of the self. In one of the most comprehensive examinations of the topic available, The Unity of Consciousness draws on a wide range of findings within philosophy and the sciences of the mind to construct an account of the unity of consciousness that is both conceptually sophisticated and scientifically informed.

The Unity of Being - Ibn 'Arabi and His Follower/poets - Auhad Ud-Din, 'Iraqi, Shabistari, Maghribi, Jili, Shah Da'i and Jami

The Unity of Being - Ibn 'Arabi and His Follower/poets - Auhad Ud-Din, 'Iraqi, Shabistari, Maghribi, Jili, Shah Da'i and Jami
Author: Ibn 'Arabi
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2017-11-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781973923886

THE UNITY OF BEING Ibn 'Arabi & his follower/poets: Auhad ud-din, 'Iraqi, Shabistari, Maghribi, Jili, Shah Da'i & Jami SELECTED POEMS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith In the West Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) is also known as the Doctor Maximus and in the Islamic world as the Reviver of Religion and the Great Master. Ibn 'Arabi is known as the prime exponent of the idea later known as the 'Unity of Being'. The poets in this anthology following him believed in and expanded this mystical philosophy. His emphasis was on the true potential of the human being and the path to realising that potential and becoming the Perfect or complete human being. Many of the great Sufi Master poets who came after him expanded and explained in their wonderful poetry in all forms on 'The Unity of Being'. CONTENTS: Sufis: Their Art and Use of Poetry 7, Forms of Poetry of these Poets 17, The Life & Times & Works of Ibn 'Arabi 33, The Life & Times & Poetry of Auhad ud-din 113, The Life & Times & Poetry of 'Iraqi 167, The Life & Times & Poetry of Shabistari 289, The Life & Times & Poetry of Maghribi 411, The Life & Times & Poetry of Jili 447, The Life & Times & Poetry of Shah Da'i 467, The Life & Times & Poetry of Jami 489. Selected Bibliographies. The correct rhyme-structures have been kept in the translations of these beautiful, powerful, spiritual poems. Large Format Paperback 7" x 10" 664 pages.Paul Smith (b. 1945) is an Australian poet and translator of many books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu, Kashmiri and other languages including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Dard, Nazir, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, 'Iraqi, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and a dozen screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa Published by New Humanity Books

The Unity of Philosophical Experience

The Unity of Philosophical Experience
Author: Etienne Gilson
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1999
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780898707489

"Lectures ... given at Harvard University in the first half of the academic year 1936-37"--Foreword.