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Possibility and actuality / Nicolai Hartmann ; translated by Alex Scott and Stephanie Adair ; with an introduction by Roberto Poli.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hartmann, Nicolai, 1882-1950.
- Standardized Title:
- Möglichkeit und Wirklichkeit. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ontology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (524 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nicolai Hartmann's Possibility and Actuality is the second volume of a four-part investigation of ontology. It deals with such questions as: How do we know that something is really possible? Is the possible only the actual? Is the actual only the possible? What is the difference between ideal and real possibility? This groundbreaking work of modal analysis describes the logical relations between possibility, actuality, and necessity, and it provides insight into the relations between modes of knowledge and modes of being. Hartmann reviews the history of philosophical concepts of possibility and necessity, from ancient Megarian philosophy to Aristotle, to Medieval Scholasticism, to Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel. He explains the importance of modal analysis as a basic investigative tool, and he proposes an approach to understanding the nature of human existence that unifies the fields of ontology, modal logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. This brilliant and fascinating work is relevant to many topics of debate in contemporary philosophy, including the ontology of possible worlds, the metaphysics of modality, the logic of counterfactual conditionals, and modal epistemology. It illuminates the nature of real, ideal, logical, and epistemic possibility.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The problem of the levels of modality
- pt. 2. The modality of real being
- pt. 3. The modality of the unreal
- pt. 4. Second-order intermodal relations.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783110246681
- 3110246686
- OCLC:
- 851970090
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