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Há 4 dias · In his Discourse on Metaphysics (1686), Gottfried Leibniz argued ‘created substances depend upon God, who preserves them and who even produces them continually by a kind of emanation’, echoing Ṣadrā’s account in Asfār of the emanation and modulation of existence from the Necessary Being.
23 de mai. de 2024 · Product Information. Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays contains complete translations of the two essays that constitute the best introductions to Leibniz's complex thought: Discourse on Metaphysics of 1686 and Monadology of 1714.
Há 5 dias · In their anthology Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology, Daniel J. Nicholson and John Dupré argue that modern theories of biology imply that the fundamental structure of reality is processual at its core. In the present work, I first examine the implicit and explicit metaphysical presuppositions the editors make in order to allow for such an inference from scientific ...
17 de mai. de 2024 · Neo‐Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature, James Orr, Robert C. Koons, William M. R. Simpson (eds), Routledge, 2022 (ISBN 9780367637149), 462 pp., hb £130 - Haecker - 2024 - Reviews in Religion & Theology - Wiley Online Library.
9 de mai. de 2024 · Abstract. The basic concepts we use to frame metaphysical discussions – our tools of metaphysics – profoundly influence how those discussions proceed. Much recent work in anglophone metaphysics has centred on a set of hyperintensional such tools: grounding, dependence, fundamentality, and essence. This topical collection will ...
Há 3 dias · Definition. Metaphysics is the study of the most general features of reality, including existence, objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind. It is one of the oldest branches of philosophy. [1]
Há 1 dia · 1. Introduction. In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle characterizes five elements of friendship: 1) one wishes and does what is good for the sake of his friend; 2) one wishes for his friend to exist and live for the friend’s own sake; 3) one enjoys spending time with his friend; 4) one has the same tastes or chooses to do the same things as his friend; 5) one shares the sorrows and joys of ...
