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2 days ago · Definition. Metaphysics is the study of the most general features of reality, including existence, objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind. It is one of the oldest branches of philosophy.
2 days ago · Uniformism is the view that one and the same epistemology should apply for all modal knowledge. I argue that, whether or not all modal knowledge can be accounted for in terms of knowledge of essences, uniformism about knowledge of essences is untenable. I do this by showing that, while some essences are empirically discoverable, others are not. I then argue that the uniquely realisable–non ...
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2 days ago · t. e. In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being. It investigates what types of entities exist, how they are grouped into categories, and how they are related to one another on the most fundamental level (and whether there even is a fundamental level). [1]
In the following, the authors focus primarily on the metaphysical background of the analysed approaches to the living: Ehrenfels`s metaphysics of the organic world, Uexküll`s counterpoint teleology, and Merleau-Ponty`s particular metaphysics, which moves on the interface of the finite and infinite.
2 days ago · Welcome to our channel! In this video, we explore the meaning, etymology, definition, origin, and results of the term "metaphysics." Join us as we delve into...
3 days ago · Over the course of the 20th century, Eugene Exman, the religion editor at Harper and Sons, published hundreds of bestselling spiritual books that facilitated the American transition from doctrinal and institutional religion to personal spirituality, including Huxley’s The perennial philosophy, Huston Smith’s The religions of man, and Eliade ...
3 days ago · Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was a German philosopher whose groundbreaking work in ontology and metaphysics determined the course of 20th-century philosophy on the European continent and exerted an enormous influence on virtually every other humanistic discipline, including literary criticism, hermeneutics, psychology, and theology.
