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M. Heidegger: Metaphysical character of technical scientific civilisation [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2009
In this paper, author deals with Heidegger's account of the modern age as the epoch based on Western metaphysics. In the first part of the paper, he shows that, according to Heidegger, modern interpretation of the reality as the world picture, is ...
Savić Mićo
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BACK TO THE QUESTION OF ONTOLOGY (AND METAPHYSICS)

Manuscrito, 2021
We articulate a distinction between ontology, understood as involving existence questions, and metaphysics, understood as either providing for metaphysical profiles of entities or else as dealing with fundamentality and/or grounding and dependence ...
JONAS RAFAEL BECKER ARENHART, RAONI WOHNRATH ARROYO   +1 more
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All For A Realist Defense of Metaphysics: Graham Harman vs. Peter Wolfendale [PDF]

İnsan & Toplum, 2019
Metaphysics is generally claimed to have been in decline since Kant. Recent debates on the feasibility of metaphysics have introduced renewed readings into metaphysics and theorizations of the object. Speculative realism on the possibility of metaphysics
Sümeyye Parıldar
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“Yu Jiyuan 余紀元 and Retrofitting ‘Metaphysics’ for Confucian Philosophy: Human ‘Beings’ or Human ‘Becomings’?

Asian Studies, 2020
In past work on Chinese “cosmology”, I have resisted using the term “metaphysics” because of the history of this term in classical Greek philosophy.
Roger T. Ames
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Pеter Lnitskyi as an Apologist Metaphysics in “Age of Science”

Наукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2019
The article is about metaphysical studies of Peter Linitskyi’s (1839–1906), a professor of the Department of Logic and Metaphysics in the Kyiv Theological Academy. For many years P. Linitskyi taught students of the Academy all parts of metaphysics.
Viktor Kozlovskyi
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Words, Species, and Kinds

Metaphysics, 2021
It has been widely argued that words are analogous to species such that words, like species, are natural kinds. In this paper, I consider the metaphysics of word-kinds.
J. T. M. Miller
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Agamben Reading Kafka: The Animal Way to Paradise

Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics
The aim of this paper is to revisit the theme of paradise and animality in the work of Kafka, whilst at the same time elucidate Agamben's complex understanding of these notions with the help of the literary imagery of Kafka.
Ype de Boer, Anke Snoek
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“God Has Not Died, He Became Government”: Use-of-Oneself and Immanence in Giorgio Agamben’s Work

Philosophies
This article delves into the theme of the death of God in Giorgio Agamben’s work from a political perspective, seeking to interpret the notion of “God” in Agamben through the concepts of “government” and “transcendence”.
Benjamim Brum Neto
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Newman and Wittgenstein on the Will to Believe: Quasi-Fideism and the Ground of Religious Certainty

Religions
In this article, I argue that Newman’s emphasis on a gestaltic model of reasoning and the role played by the imagination in informal reasoning is a fruitful starting point for an exploration of convergence between the Grammar of Assent and Wittgenstein’s
Modesto Gómez-Alonso
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The evolution of the ideas of metaphysics and ontology

Интеллект. Инновации. Инвестиции, 2020
The categories of metaphysics and ontology in aspect of their evolution are considered in the article. At the beginning of the article, we are talking about the absence of the term «being» in ancient languages and its birth as a philosophical term ...
D. V. Ankin
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