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...An Introduction to Metaphysics (Introduction a la Metaphysique) is a 1903 essay by Henri Bergson that explores the concept of reality. For Bergson, reality occurs not in a series of discrete states but as a process similar to that described by ...

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...The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, also known as The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals or Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals or Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals, is Immanuel Kant's first contribution to moral philosophy. It argues for an a priori basis for morality. Where the C...

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Epic Poem of Western Philosophy deconstructing the Philosophy Literature of Western Metaphysics.

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...lems of philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics. Russell guides the reader through his famous distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description and introduces important theories of Plato, Aristotle, René Descartes, David Hume, John Lock...

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...Arthur Schopenhauer, an early 19th century philosopher, made significant contributions to metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. His work also informed theories of evolution and psychology, largely through his theory of the will to power – a concept which Nietzsche famously adopted and developed. Despite this, he is...

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...1. Ontology. 2. Metaphysics. 3. Philosophy, German. 4.Thought and thinking. 5. Philosophy, Asian. 6. Philosophy, Indic. 7. Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.8. Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century. 9. Practice (Philosophy). 10. Philosophy and...

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...1. Ontology. 2. Metaphysics. 3. Philosophy, German. 4.Thought and thinking. 5. Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. 6. Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854. 7. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. 8. Philosophy, Asian. 9. Philosoph...

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...ith Lesser Known Philosophers (p. 111 to p. 121). 8). Heidegger's Encounter with F.W.J. Schelling: The Questions of Evil and Freedom, and the end of Metaphysics (p. 123 to p. 135). 9). Martin Heidegger contra Nietzsche on the Greeks (p. 136 to p. 148). 10). Martin Heidegger and Nietzsche on Amor Fati (p. 149 to p. 156). (11). Martin Heidegger’s ontotheological problems...

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...Blending a subtle cocktail of Physics and Metaphysics, and building on inspiration from cutting edge thinkers, this new age opus takes the reader beyond the edge of modern science and into a higher dimensional realm where consciousness dictates its own destiny throug...

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...0). [Götzen-Dämmerung. English]. Translation of text, afterward, notes, letters, and appendixes by ©Daniel Fidel Ferrer, 2013. 1. Philosophy. 2). Metaphysics. 3). Philosophy, German. 4). Philosophy, German -- 19th century. 5). Philosophy, German – Greek influences. I. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. II. Ferrer, Daniel Fidel, 1952-. ...

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...texts outside the sphere of his specialism, and remains read today by students of philosophy. In it, Huxley argues from the results of vivisection to metaphysics. (Summary by CarlManchester)...

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...e identical,” or (to quote the monster’s own words in the sixth book of his Metaphysics) 71 : “An affirmative proposition requires the agreement of t... ...remains the same. Cf. p. 29 n. 61. 71 Luther should be referred not to the Metaphysics but to the Organon, where in chapter 6 on De Interpretatione,...

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...e , 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text which sketches in some 90 paragraphs a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads. What he proposed can be seen as a modification of occasionalism developed by latter-day Cartesians. Leibniz surmised that there are indefinitely many substances individually 'progr...

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... Pure philosophical concepts are not to be found. This is a dialectic of metaphysics, and similarly a metaphysics of dialectic. 54 Is there... ...he values: ‘true’, ‘false’, and ‘both true and false’. The ancient Indian metaphysics considered four possible values of a statement: ‘true (only)’,...

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...are badly understood by laymen and have led to the ostensible merger of physics and metaphysics; (3) The eventual acceptance by the scientific commu... ...s the sad outcome of the blurring of contemporary distinctions between physics and metaphysics. Modern science borders on speculation and attempts,... ...rations regarding the Existence of God Occasionalism is a variation upon Cartesian metaphysics. The latter is the most notorious case of dualism (m...

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...t distorted it, to accommodate Hebrew theology and Plato’s and Aristotle’s metaphysics. These are the cultural reference points that we must keep in...

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... of the origin. We can not know the "true nature" of anything. This is the realm of metaphysics, not of physics. Take Quantum Mechanics. It provide... ...rtes applied ideal intuitions (e.g., reason) to his eidetic intuitions to yield his metaphysics. Husserl, Twardowki, even Bolzano did the same in de... ...are badly understood by laymen and have led to the ostensible merger of physics and metaphysics; (3) The eventual acceptance by the scientific commu... ...ood is a return to infancy. Parsimony Occasionalism is a variation upon Cartesian metaphysics. The latter is the most notorious case of dualism (m... ...s the sad outcome of the blurring of contemporary distinctions between physics and metaphysics. Modern science borders on speculation and attempts,...

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... why and how, enough arguments can be found in the body of the essay, which sheds light on these two questions.......The essay is done in relation to metaphysics, ethics, and logic. I propose a few recommendations as to how to go about making ethics prevail. Although I will offer my views, but I will do so by abiding by the principle of alterity or otherness, meaning that ...

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...ng.’ On the whole, we must allow that the great service rendered by Plato to metaphysics in the Sophist, is not his explanation of ‘Not being’ as diff... ...t Ath ens and elsewhere, of whose endless activity of mind Aristotle in his Metaphysics has preserved 25 Sophist – Plato an anonymous memorial. V . ... ...E DIALOGUE in which Plato most nearly approaches the great modern master of metaphysics there are several points which it will be useful to consider,... ... whether described as ‘philosophia prima,’ the science of ousia, logic or metaphysics, philoso phers have often dreamed. But even now the time has... ...nderstand ing can be understood in a moment; common sense will not teach us metaphysics any more than mathematics. If all sciences demand of us protr... ...n 64 Sophist – Plato we deny that he has sometimes interpreted phys ics by metaphysics, and confused his own philo sophical fancies with the laws o... ...so called philosophy of common sense. He shows us that only by the study of metaphysics can we get rid of metaphysics, and that those who are in theo...

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... founder of idealism, and also of dialectic, or , in modern phraseology , of metaphysics and logic (Theaet., Soph.). Like Plato, he is struggling afte... ...f ‘calvus’ or ‘acervus,’ or of ‘Achilles and the tortoise.’ These ‘surds’ of metaphysics ought to occasion no more difficulty in speculation than a pe... ...es truth entirely upon fact. In an unmetaphysical age there is probably more metaphysics in the common sense (i.e. more a priori assumption) than in a... ...ith the conviction that we are resting on facts. We do not consider how much metaphysics are required to place us above metaphysics, or how difficult ...

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...interposed between the Parmenides or Philebus of Plato, and the Physics or Metaphysics of Aristotle. It is this interval upon which we have to fix our... ...hese questions reappear in Aristotle, as does also the distinction between metaphysics and mathematics. But there are many things in Plato which have ... ...nd Bacon), and the cumbrous fourfold division of causes in the Physics and Metaphysics of Aristotle, for which it has puzzled the world to find a use ...

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...d is certainly the greatest of them. There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist; the Politicus or Statesman ...