The texture of being [electronic resource] : essays in first philosophy / Kenneth L. Schmitz ; edited by Paul O'Herron.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 46.Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2007.Description: xvii, 327 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 100 s 110 22
LOC classification:
  • B21 .S78 vol. 46 2007eb
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Contents:
PART I. BEING. -- Metaphysics: radical, comprehensive, determinate discourse -- Analysis by principles and analysis by elements -- From anarchy to principles: deconstruction and the resources of Christian philosophy -- Neither with nor without foundations -- Another look at objectivity -- Enriching the copula -- Created receptivity and the philosophy of the concrete -- The solidarity of personalism and the metaphysics of existential act -- PART II. MAN. -- The geography of the human person -- Immateriality past and present -- The first principle of personal becoming -- Purity of soul and immortality -- Is liberalism good enough? -- PART III. GOD. -- Theological clearances: foreground to a rational recovery of God -- God, being and love: new ontological perspectives coming from philosophy -- The death of good and the rebirth of man -- The witness of beauty: the profile of God.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-323) and index.

PART I. BEING. -- Metaphysics: radical, comprehensive, determinate discourse -- Analysis by principles and analysis by elements -- From anarchy to principles: deconstruction and the resources of Christian philosophy -- Neither with nor without foundations -- Another look at objectivity -- Enriching the copula -- Created receptivity and the philosophy of the concrete -- The solidarity of personalism and the metaphysics of existential act -- PART II. MAN. -- The geography of the human person -- Immateriality past and present -- The first principle of personal becoming -- Purity of soul and immortality -- Is liberalism good enough? -- PART III. GOD. -- Theological clearances: foreground to a rational recovery of God -- God, being and love: new ontological perspectives coming from philosophy -- The death of good and the rebirth of man -- The witness of beauty: the profile of God.

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