An Actological Metaphysic

Author : Malcolm Torry
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 259 pages
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Release : 2023-12-27
Category : Religion
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An actology—introduced by the first book in this series, Actology: Action, Change and Diversity in the Western Philosophical Tradition—understands reality as action in changing patterns. Actological Readings in Continental Philosophy reads a number of continental philosophers through this lens, and An Actology of the Given explores the concepts of the gift, givenness, and giving in the light of reality understood as action in changing patterns. Mark’s Gospel: An Actological Reading is what it says it is. This fifth book in the series, An Actological Metaphysic, is a more systematic treatment of cosmology and of such concepts as truth, knowledge, causality, time, space, life, and society, to see what happens when they are understood actologically: that is, with reality understood as action in changing patterns.

Author : Malcolm Torry
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 259 pages
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Release : 2023-12-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798385205981

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An Actological Metaphysic by Malcolm Torry Pdf

An actology—introduced by the first book in this series, Actology: Action, Change and Diversity in the Western Philosophical Tradition—understands reality as action in changing patterns. Actological Readings in Continental Philosophy reads a number of continental philosophers through this lens, and An Actology of the Given explores the concepts of the gift, givenness, and giving in the light of reality understood as action in changing patterns. Mark’s Gospel: An Actological Reading is what it says it is. This fifth book in the series, An Actological Metaphysic, is a more systematic treatment of cosmology and of such concepts as truth, knowledge, causality, time, space, life, and society, to see what happens when they are understood actologically: that is, with reality understood as action in changing patterns.

Author : Malcolm Torry
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 333 pages
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Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798385219759

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An Actological Theology by Malcolm Torry Pdf

An actology—introduced by the first book in this series, Actology: Action, Change and Diversity in the Western Philosophical Tradition—understands reality as action in changing patterns. Actological Readings in Continental Philosophy reads a number of continental philosophers through this lens, and An Actology of the Given explores the concepts of the gift, givenness, and giving in the light of reality understood as action in changing patterns. Mark’s Gospel: An Actological Reading is what it says it is. An Actological Metaphysic is a more systematic treatment of cosmology and of such concepts as truth, knowledge, causality, time, space, life, and society, to see what happens when they are understood actologically—that is, with reality understood as action in changing patterns. An Actological Theology similarly asks what Christian theology might look like if God, the universe, ourselves, and everything else is understood as action in changing patterns.

Author : Malcolm Torry
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 233 pages
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Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725266766

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Actology by Malcolm Torry Pdf

Two streams run through the Western philosophical stream: one characterized by Being, beings, the unchanging, the static, and the unitary; and the other by Action, actions, the changing, the dynamic, and the diverse. The former might be represented by Parmenides, Plato, and much of what followed; the latter by Heraclitus, and by rather less of what followed. The book explores the "Action" stream as it wound its way through history, through Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Maurice Blondel, Henri Bergson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, process philosophy and theology, Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and John Boys Smith. The journey enables us to create the beginnings of an "actology": a way of seeing ourselves, the universe, and God in terms of actions in patterns rather than as beings that change. Such an actology offers a complete alternative narrative far more in tune with the diverse and rapidly changing world in which we live than the ontology that has shaped philosophy, theology, and much else for the past two thousand years.

Author : Michael J. Loux
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415261074

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Metaphysics by Michael J. Loux Pdf

This second edition includes a new chapter on the realism/antirealism debate, a new more user-friendly format and examples to clarify difficult concepts, it also relates contemporary views to their classical sources.

Author : A. E Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429868139

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Elements of Metaphysics by A. E Taylor Pdf

First published in 1903, Taylor endeavours to provide a detailed study of metaphysic as a discipline. Opening with a brief history of metaphysics, the book explores topics including the problem of the metaphysician, the metaphysical method, subdivisions of metaphysics, ontology, reality, cosmology, rational psychology, morality, ethics and religion.

Author : Hermann Lotze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : WISC:89094553666

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Metaphysic by Hermann Lotze Pdf

Author : Jean Grondin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231148443

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Introduction to Metaphysics by Jean Grondin Pdf

This history of metaphysics respects both the analytic and Continental schools while also transcending the theoretical limitations of each. The book provides an overview restoring the value of metaphysics to contemporary audiences.

Author : H.H. Oliver
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400982505

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A Relational Metaphysic by H.H. Oliver Pdf

C. S. Peirce's indictment that "the chief cause of [metaphysics'] backward condition is that its leading professors have been theo (Collected Papers 6:3) falls heavily at my door. For it logians" was out of reflection upon religious experience and its meaning that the present relational metaphysic was conceived. My hope, however, is that its scope is sufficiently wider than its theological origins to justify its appearance as a work in philosophy. Having been nurtured in existential philosophy and having reached some measure of maturity with the wise counsel of Professor Dr. Fritz Buri, of Basel, I came to feel that theology as a modern discipline had reached an impasse owing to its overextended commitments to a subject-object paradigm of thought. Even those theologians who despaired of these ties seemed unable to find an independent alternative idiom for their ideas. A second tension in my thinking resulted from the inordinate neglect by theologians of the natural world. Also, my natural interest in physical understanding seemed unfulfilled within the narrow confines of theology, even of philosophical theology as then practiced. As I turned decisively toward the study of modern physics, and especially of cosmology, a new world seemed to open up to me. After extensive study with prominent astronomers and physicists, it began to dawn on me that the new physics has devised conceptual paradigms of thought which could be generalized into a metaphysical system of universal interest.

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300083286

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Introduction to Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger Pdf

Furthermore, be relates this question to the insights of Greek tragedy into the human condition and to the political and cultural crises of modernity.".

Author : Jack S. Crumley II
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770488236

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An Introduction to Metaphysics by Jack S. Crumley II Pdf

An Introduction to Metaphysics offers an engrossing survey of central metaphysical topics, including truth, universals, the nature of mind, personal identity, free will, time, and the existence of God. The book is pitched at an intermediate undergraduate level and is suitable for students without background knowledge in these areas. Topically organized, it examines a variety of historical and contemporary positions relevant to each of the included themes. Memorable and amusing drawings by Gillian Wilson are interspersed throughout the text to illustrate concepts and examples.

Author : Malcolm Torry
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666781540

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An Actology of the Given by Malcolm Torry Pdf

An actology--introduced by the first book in this series, Actology: Action, Change and Diversity in the Western Philosophical Tradition--is a conceptual structure characterized by action, change, and diversity, and that envisages reality as action in changing patterns. The previous book in this series, Actological Readings in Continental Philosophy, reads a number of continental philosophers through this lens. This new book, An Actology of the Given, takes a somewhat different approach: it explores the concepts of the gift, givenness, giving, and other cognates in the light of reality understood as action in patterns rather than as beings that change: and it does so by discussing some anthropology, the writings of a number of continental philosophers, biblical texts, social policy, and a variety of other givens.

Author : Hermann Lotze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Logic
ISBN : OSU:32435023055254

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Lotze's System of Philosophy: Metaphysic in three books, ontology, cosmology and psychology by Hermann Lotze Pdf

Author : Jacques Maritain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X000140151

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A Preface to Metaphysics by Jacques Maritain Pdf

Author : Benjamin Curtis,Jon Robson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472566881

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A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Time by Benjamin Curtis,Jon Robson Pdf

What is the nature of time? Does it flow? Do the past and future exist? Drawing connections between historical and present-day questions, A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Time provides an up-to-date guide to one of the most central and debated topics in contemporary metaphysics. Introducing the views and arguments of Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Newton and Leibniz, this accessible introduction covers the history of the philosophy of time from the Pre-Socratics to the beginning of the 20th Century. The historical survey presents the necessary background to understanding more recent developments, including McTaggart's 1908 argument for the unreality of time, the open future, the perdurance/endurance debate, the possibility of time travel, and the relevance of current physics to the philosophy of time. Informed by cutting-edge philosophical research, A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Time evaluates influential historical arguments in the context of contemporary developments. For students looking to gain insights into how ideas within the philosophy of time have developed and better understand recent arguments, this is the ideal starting point.