Space, time and the ethical foundations / Robert Elliott Allinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allinson, Robert E. (Robert Elliott)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Ethics.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

203 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2002]

Contents:

Part I In Between Metaphysics and Epistemology 1

1 On Certifying What is True in Philosophical Discourse 3

2 On the Synthetic a Priori: Everything about the Synthetic a Priori Has Not Been Said 21

3 Kant's Four Missing Arguments: A Phenomenological Treatment of the Kantian Idea of Space 29

4 Space, Time and Metaphysics 41

Space and Time 41

Time 49

Kant's Mistake 52

Space 56

Space and Time Revisited 57

Space, Time and Metaphysics 61

Science and Metaphysics 63

5 The Thalian Fallacy: The Problem of Physics and Philosophy 69

Physics and Philosophy 71

6 The Complementarity Principle, the Sixth 83

The Sixth 84

7 The Analogies of Experience 93

The Grounding of Metaphysics and the Ground of Metaphysics 93

Space and Time 101

Causality 103

Descartes' Causal Proof 106

Truth 108

Toward a New Metaphysics 109

8 A Metaphysics of Virtual Reality 113

The Inner and the Outer Circle 113

Space and Time as Transcendental Conditions for the Possibility of Representation in General 115

Application 117

Kant and Metaphysics and a Metaphysics of Virtual Reality 121

9 On Fact and Essence, the Philosopher and the World 125

On the Inseparability of Fact and Essence 125

Building a Bridge to the World 126

10 The Intuition Taboo 137

Part II The Nature of Ethics and the Bio-psychological Deduction of the Emotions 141

1 Toward a New Ethical Foundation: Bio-Evolutionary Social Theory 143

The Original Goodness of Human Nature 143

I. Methodological Considerations 143

A. The Problem of the Type of Existence of the Subject Matter 143

B. The Problem of Access to the Subject Matter 144

II. Substantive Considerations 144

A. Metaphysical 145

B. Biological 145

C. Social 146

D. Bio-psychology 146

The Bio-psychological Deduction of the Emotions: The Theoretical Foundations for the Grounding of a New Ethics 147

Social Evolution 153

2 The Moral Realm of Truth and Mencius' Phenomenology of Compassion 163

3 The Metaphysical Foundation of the Phenomenological Structure of Ethics: Ethics as Regional Metaphysics 183

Metaphysics and Ethics 183

Ethics as Regional Metaphysics 183

Metaphysical Truths in Ethics 184

Fact and Value 185

A Note on the Bio-psychological Deduction of the Emotions 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1840149272

OCLC:

45306157