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The metaphysical presuppositions of being-in-the-world : a confrontation between St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger / Caitlin Smith Gilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith Gilson, Caitlin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intentionality (Philosophy).
- Metaphysics.
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Thomas.
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
- Heidegger, Martin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Continuum, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World brings St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger into dialogue and argues for the necessity of Christian philosophy. Through the confrontation of Heideggerian and Thomist thought, it offers an original and comprehensive rethinking of the nature of temporality and the origins of metaphysical inquiry. The book is a careful treatment of the inception and deterioration of the four-fold presuppositions of Thomistic metaphysics: intentionality, causality, finitude, ananke stenai. The analysis of the four-fold has never before been done and it is a
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 The Fourfold Historical Origin of Metaphysics; Chapter 2 St. Thomas Aquinas and Classical Intentionality; Chapter 3 The Fourfold Reversals: The Displacement of Being-in-the-World; Chapter 4 The Fourfold Intensities; Epilogue: The Metaphysics of Tragedy; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-211) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612576836
- 9781441180148
- 1441180141
- 9781282576834
- 1282576836
- 9781441123671
- 1441123679
- OCLC:
- 638860002
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