Unity Metaphysics

Author : Charles Fillmore
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781519103680
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unity Metaphysics written by Charles Fillmore and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published more than 70 years ago, is the key to the metaphysical teachings of Charles Fillmore, the co-founder of Unity. In it you will find fascinating quotations and comments on metaphysical subjects including the reality of God, the nature of humankind, and the purpose of Mind. You will find that Mind does two crucial things: it creates and emits Divine Ideas. You will see that true, perfect nature is what metaphysical thinkers know as an idea. The Divine Idea for human beings is given a special term, the Christ. Divine Ideas form the "pattern" from which things in the material world are expressed. These are fascinating metaphysical ideas from the heart and pen of America's preeminent metaphysician-Ideas from God-Mind.

Author : Eric Butterworth
Publisher : Unity Books
ISBN 13 : 9780871593696
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Metaphysics written by Eric Butterworth and published by Unity Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Butterworth has earned the trust of millions with his sound, hard-hitting advice on how to make life better through the practice of metaphysics. This adaptation from A Course in Practical Metaphysics is packed with insights, activities, and meditations which will increase your spiritual awareness and help you live a more fulfilling life. Learn about the background of metaphysics, the aspects of God, the will of God, Jesus, spiritual awakening, and how words and thought affect your life. Explore the practicality of metaphysics focusing on subjects such as faith, the presence and power of God, love, prayer, healing, prosperity, and mroe. Compiled by Mark Hicks from A Course in Practical Metaphysics and edited by Michael A. Maday.

Author : Theodore Scaltsas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199244416
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unity, Identity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics written by Theodore Scaltsas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents fourteen new essays by leading figures in the fields of ancient philosophy and contemporary metaphysics, discussing Aristotle's theory of the unity of substances. This topic remains at the centre of metaphysical enquiry.The contributors examine the nature of essences, how they differ from other components of substance, and how they are related to these other components. The central questions discussed here are: What does Aristotle mean by 'potentiality' and 'actuality'? How do these concepts explicate matter andform, and how are they related to the actuality of substance? What is the role of matter and form in accounting for the unity, identity, and individuation of substances? These questions are crucial to an understanding of the unity of composite substances and their identity over time.The aim of the volume is both exegetical and philosophical: to address central issues in Aristotle's Metaphysics, and to stimulate further investigation of the problems and controversies that arise from these.

Author : Tuomas E. Tahko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108604560
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unity of Science written by Tuomas E. Tahko and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unity of science was once a very popular idea among both philosophers and scientists. But it has fallen out of fashion, largely because of its association with reductionism and the challenge from multiple realisation. Pluralism and the disunity of science are the new norm, and higher-level natural kinds and special science laws are considered to have an important role in scientific practice. What kind of reductionism does multiple realisability challenge? What does it take to reduce one phenomenon to another? How do we determine which kinds are natural? What is the ontological basis of unity? In this Element, Tuomas Tahko examines these questions from a contemporary perspective, after a historical overview. The upshot is that there is still value in the idea of a unity of science. We can combine a modest sense of unity with pluralism and give an ontological analysis of unity in terms of natural kind monism. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Jussi Backman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438456506
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complicated Presence written by Jussi Backman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its Presocratic beginnings, Western philosophy concerned itself with a quest for unity both in terms of the systematization of knowledge and as a metaphysical search for a unity of being—two trends that can be regarded as converging and culminating in Hegel's system of absolute idealism. Since Hegel, however, the philosophical quest for unity has become increasingly problematic. Jussi Backman returns to that question in this book, examining the place of the unity of being in the work of Heidegger. Backman sketches a consistent picture of Heidegger as a thinker of unity who throughout his career in different ways attempted to come to terms with both Parmenides's and Aristotle's fundamental questions concerning the singularity or multiplicity of being—attempting to do so, however, in a "postmetaphysical" manner rooted in rather than above and beyond particular, situated beings. Through his analysis, Backman offers a new way of understanding the basic continuity of Heidegger's philosophical project and the interconnectedness of such key Heideggerian concepts as ecstatic temporality, the ontological difference, the turn (Kehre), the event (Ereignis), the fourfold (Geviert), and the analysis of modern technology.

Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898707489
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unity of Philosophical Experience written by Etienne Gilson and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lectures ... given at Harvard University in the first half of the academic year 1936-37"--Foreword.

Author : Alekseĭ Stepanovich Khomi︠a︡kov
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 9780940262911
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Spiritual Unity written by Alekseĭ Stepanovich Khomi︠a︡kov and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the religious and philosophical writings of the founders of Russian religious philosophy, Aleksei Khomiakov and Ivan Kireevsky. Both began their intellectual careers in the literary world of the 1820s. The texts collected here make the philosophical concepts of Sobornost (community, universality, wholeness, ecumenicity) and integral knowledge, available to western readers. Based on the primacy of the heart, the spiritual wholeness of the human being and the cognitive will, integral knowing moves beyond rationality to union with the object of knowledge in knowing. This book provides an introduction to Russian religious philosophy, and a profound, meditative text for anyone concerned with human and spiritual unity. Also included are two responses to Slavophile ideas by the prominent Russian philosophers Pavel Florensky and Nikolai Berdiaev.

Author : Edmund Runggaldier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311021234X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unity and Time in Metaphysics written by Edmund Runggaldier and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this collection deal with the fundamental problem of unity, which plays a decisive role in many contemporary debates (even when this role is not acknowledged). Questions like whether there can be unities that persist through time ? e.g. persons who remain the same throughout their lives ? are discussed from various perspectives. Is such an idea possible at all, and if so, what role do concepts like force, capacity, and disposition play in this context?

Author : Giovanni Reale
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873953856
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concept of First Philosophy and the Unity of the Metaphysics of Aristotle written by Giovanni Reale and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reale's monumental work establishes the exact dimensions of Aristotle's concept of first philosophy and proves the profound unity of concept that exists in Aristotle's Metaphysics. Reale's opposition to the genetic interpretation of the Metaphysics is an updated return to a more traditional view of Aristotle's work, one which runs counter to nearly all contemporary scholarship. Reale argues that Aristotle's first philosophy includes a study of being, a study of substance, a study of divine substance, and a study of principles and causes, all of which are integrated and dialectically reconciled.

Author : Patrick Rogers Horn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351935054
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gadamer and Wittgenstein on the Unity of Language written by Patrick Rogers Horn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative comparison of Gadamer and Wittgenstein, the author explores their common concern with the relation of language to reality. Patrick Horn's starting point is the widely accepted view that both philosophers rejected a certain metaphysical account of that relation in which reality determines the nature of language. Horn proceeds to argue that Gadamer never completely escaped metaphysical assumptions in his search for the unity of language. In this respect, argues Horn, Gadamer's work is nearer to the earlier rather than to the later Wittgenstein. The final chapter of the book highlights the work of Wittgenstein’s pupil Rush Rhees, who shows that Wittgenstein's own later emphasis on language games, while doing justice to the variety of language, does less than justice to the dialogical relation between speakers of a language, wherein the unity of language resides. Contrasting Rhees's account of the unity of language with those given by Gadamer and the early Wittgenstein brings out the importance of understanding reality in terms of the life that people share rather than in terms of what philosophers say about reality.