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Há 5 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 4 dias · Meta-metaphysics is the metatheory of metaphysics and investigates the nature and methods of metaphysics. It also examines how metaphysics differs from other philosophical and scientific disciplines and how it is relevant to them.
Há 1 dia · Aristotle examines the concepts of substance (ousia) and essence (to ti ên einai, "the what it was to be") in his Metaphysics (Book VII), and he concludes that a particular substance is a combination of both matter and form, a philosophical theory called hylomorphism.
Há 8 horas · Ethical discourse in contemporary Western academia is largely centered around the search for objectivity and universality. Many ethical theories are expected to find, or at least contribute to the search for, a final answer to all moral problems. Discussions are largely theoretical and mostly end up prioritizing some aspects of life over others.
Há 4 dias · Multiverses and falsifiability. Adam Becker’s 2018 book What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics is an excellent account of the longstanding and intractable controversy over how to interpret quantum mechanics. One of the main themes of the book is how much the direction of twentieth-century physics was driven by ...
Há 3 dias · Any topics primarily focused on metaphysics can be discussed here, in a generally casual way, where conversations may take unexpected turns.
Há 2 dias · Philosophy. Philosophy ( φιλοσοφία, 'love of wisdom', in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions. Historically, many of the individual ...
