The Metaphysics

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316875903
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals written by Immanuel Kant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's final major work in moral philosophy. In it, he presents the basic concepts and principles of right and virtue and the system of duties of human beings as such. The work comprises two parts: the Doctrine of Right concerns outer freedom and the rights of human beings against one another; the Doctrine of Virtue concerns inner freedom and the ethical duties of human beings to themselves and others. Mary Gregor's translation, lightly revised for this edition, is the only complete translation of the entire text, and includes extensive annotation on Kant's difficult and sometimes unfamiliar vocabulary. This edition includes numerous new footnotes, some of which address controversial aspects of Gregor's translation or offer alternatives. Lara Denis's introduction sets the work in context, explains its structure and themes, and introduces important interpretive debates. The volume also provides thorough guidance on further reading including online resources.

Author : J. E. Wolff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192573942
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Quantities written by J. E. Wolff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative? This book articulates and defends an original answer to this important, insufficiently understood question through the novel position of substantival structuralism. This position argues that quantitativeness is an irreducible feature of attributes, and quantitative attributes are best understood as substantival structured spaces. The book first explores what it means for an attribute to be quantitative, and what metaphysical implications a commitment to quantitative attributes has. It then sets the stage to address the metaphysical and ontological consequences of the existence of quantitative attributes.

Author : J. Robert G. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198850204
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Representation written by J. Robert G. Williams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing the world is a puzzling thing. How can it be that mundane events such as processing a thought - and from there putting those thoughts into words - acquire this property of "aboutness"? How can expressions, which depend on anything from the most fundamental regularities in theuniverse to trivial matters of gossip, be either true or false? In The Metaphysics of Representation, J. Robert G. Williams tells a story about how representational properties arise out of a fundamentally non-representational world. The representational properties of language are reduced, viaconvention, to the representational properties of thoughts. The representational properties of thoughts are reduced, via principles of rationalization, to the representational properties of perception and intention. And this most fundamental layer of representation is explained in terms of thefunctions they have to communicate. Williams integrates work from rival traditions to present a combined perspective in the metaphysics of representation, give new predictions and explanations of representational phenomena, and offer new solutions to long-standing problems.

Author : Leon Horsten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110703941X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics and Mathematics of Arbitrary Objects written by Leon Horsten and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops and defends a new metaphysical and logical theory of arbitrary objects that will reinvigorate the philosophy of mathematics.

Author : Philip Goodchild
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786614316
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Trust written by Philip Goodchild and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Credit and Faith and Economic Theology, this third volume in the series develops a metaphysics which is missing when trust is ordered around economic theories and institutions. Human existence may be conceived according to its temporal dimensions of appropriation, participation, and offering. Engaging with the Western philosophical tradition from the Neo-Pythagoreans and Plato to Heidegger and Arendt, drawing especially from Augustine and Weil, Goodchild offers striking reconstructions of the meanings of economic, political and religious dimensions of life. The outcome is an elaboration of conceptions of wealth, power, contingency, necessity and grace which give a new orientation to human life and endeavour. Goodchild situates this discussion within the current historical era of the breakdown of global financial capitalism. He draws from the Financial Revolution in England as a time of crisis which illuminates our own. Faced with a range of global crises, Goodchild proposes an alternative between strategies for survival: either submission before a Great Machine of Credit as an autonomous, unthinking system for regulating human behaviour or accession to the necessity of grace as a way of empowering the pursuit of wealth, justice and thought.

Author : Sidney Hook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Pragmatism written by Sidney Hook and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Alan Anderson
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN 13 : 1622876369
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Sex ...in a Changing World! written by Christopher Alan Anderson and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is sex metaphysical? This is to say, does it have a purpose and a nature that is encoded in the very construct of the universe? These are the questions the author takes up in this day and age where most everything is up for grabs. This writing is not without an examination of sensitive issues and explicit terms. Think of it as a third way, if you will. It resides between the "fixed" identity of our declining religions and the "fluid" identity of the emerging L,G,B,T,Q movement. In that it presents to us all another choice. In the end, it is about a construct for sexual balance that any reader can understand and use as a guide for his or her life. Keywords: Metaphysics, Sex, Relationship, Procreation, Soul, Life, Birth, Love, Desire, Healing

Author : E.H.W Kluge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401733872
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Gottlob Frege written by E.H.W Kluge and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Sprachen sind nicht nach dem logischen Lineal gemacht. (Briefwechsel, p. 102) If success in solving problems is the hallmark of philosophical great ness, then Frege was not a great philosopher. But by that same token, very few if any other figure in the history of philosophy will qualify. On the other hand, if the hallmark of philosophical great ness is the opening up of new conceptual territory and the raising of hitherto unsuspected crucial questions, the shifting of philosophical perspectiv~ and the determination of subsequent lines of enquiry, then Frege must rank among the greatest philosophers of all times. He was the first to develop a completely formalized language and a logical system sufficiently powerful to generate arithmetic; he opened up the fields of philosophy of logic and arithmetic; his theses on sense reference and definition were seminal to almost all subse quent work done in the philosophy oflanguage; and his ontological speculations constituted the foundation of one of the most profound metaphysics ever developed: that of Ludwig Wittgenstein in the Tractatus.

Author : Colin Tyler
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845405692
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Self-realisation and Freedom written by Colin Tyler and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first part of Colin Tyler’s new critical assessment of the social and political thought of T.H. Green (1836–1882) explores the grounding that Green gives to liberal socialism. Tyler shows how, for Green, ultimately, personal self-realisation and freedom stem from the innate human drive to construct a bedrock of fundamental values and commitments that can define and give direction to the individual’s most valuable potentials and talents. This book is not only a significant contribution to British idealist scholarship. It highlights also the enduring philosophical and ethical resources of a social democratic tradition that remains one of the world’s most important social and political movements, and not least across Britain, Europe, North America, India and Australia. Dr Colin Tyler is Reader in Politics at the University of Hull and joint convenor of the Centre for British Idealism.

Author : Michael Heim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195092589
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality written by Michael Heim and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heim examines, among other things, how our perception of the world will change as we move in and out of a computer-generated world.