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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 3 dias · This approach places Philosophical Anthropology before what we could call a task of “first philosophy” (cf. Tugendhat, 2007; San Martín, 2015a), a task that invites us to put phenomenology in dialogue with the Stoic tradition by realizing that the guiding problem that systematically motivates and articulates both philosophical approaches is, precisely, the question of the human being as a ...
Há 4 dias · They continue: “Unlike Greek rationality, these doctrines exclude metaphysical speculation about persons and ethics, hoping to confine the rational to the scientific-empirical sphere alone.” That error—scientism—is part of what Benedict calls the “second Enlightenment.” The failure to accept that reason has a place in discerning moral and philosophical truth leads to ...
Há 3 dias · Political philosophy. Philosophy of religion. Signature. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel [a] (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism and 19th-century philosophy. His influence extends across the entire range of contemporary philosophical topics, from metaphysical ...
