Myth and Metaphysics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myth and Metaphysics write by W.A. Luijpen. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Myth and Metaphysics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an attempt to interpret man's religious existence, an inter pretation for which some of the groundwork was laid by the author's book PHENOMENOLOGY AND ATHEISM (Duquesne University Press, 2nd impression, 1965). That work explored the "denial" of God by the leading atheists and came to terms with the most typical forms assumed by their "denials". Nevertheless, I am not an adherent of atheism. The reason why it is possible to agree with many "atheists" without becoming one of them is that man can misunderstand his own religiousness or lapse into an inauthentic form of being a believer. What many "atheists" unmask is one or the other form of pseudo-religiousness which should be unmasked. On the other hand, I have also constantly refused to identify religiousness with such inauthentic forms and to define it in terms of those forms - just as I refuse to identify the appendix with appendicitis, the heart with an infarct, the psyche as a disturbance, and marriage as a fight. The book offered here has been written since the rise of the radical "God is dead" theology. This "theology" without God has often been presented as the only form of theological thought still suitable for "modern man". As the reader will notice, I reject the brash facility with which some "modern men" measure the relevance of "anything" by its "modernity".
Myth and Philosophy in Plato's Phaedrus
Myth and Philosophy in Plato's Phaedrus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myth and Philosophy in Plato's Phaedrus write by Daniel S. Werner. This book was released on 2012-07-09. Myth and Philosophy in Plato's Phaedrus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the role of myth in Plato's Phaedrus, arguing that it leads readers to participate in Plato's dialogues and to engage in self-examination.
Metaphysics and Ontology Without Myths
Metaphysics and Ontology Without Myths - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metaphysics and Ontology Without Myths write by Fabio Bacchini. This book was released on 2014-10-02. Metaphysics and Ontology Without Myths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Metaphysics and ontology feature among the traditional and fundamental concerns of philosophers. Gaining a picture of the world and the kind of objects that exist out there is for most philosophers (past and present) a preliminary aim upon which other theoretical activities depend. In fact, it seems that sound conclusions on topics relevant to ethics, aesthetics, psychology, and common and scientific knowledge can be achieved only after one has been given a picture of that sort. What is worth stressing, though, is that from time to time the tribunal of history has managed to put its finger on some flawed conclusions. To take a time-worn example, who would now accept Plato’s claim that the spatiotemporal world is just an imperfect copy of a world of abstract objects conceived of as perfect unchanging models of concrete things? The picture Plato gave us is nothing but a myth – an account which is too far away from what common sense and science could accept, too detached from the usual ways of conducting a rational discussion. Therefore, pictures of this kind appear to be supported by nothing but dogmas, i.e. uncompromising principles taken as true without any previous critical analysis. And Plato has no shortage of company. Issues of this kind revolving around metaphysics and ontology are tackled in the essays in this volume, which approach a secular debate in fresh and original ways, providing the necessary tools for clearing the field of unpalatable metaphysical and ontological items.
Myth and Philosophy
Myth and Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myth and Philosophy write by Frank Reynolds. This book was released on 1990-01-01. Myth and Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Myth and Metaphysics in Plato's Phaedo
Myth and Metaphysics in Plato's Phaedo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myth and Metaphysics in Plato's Phaedo write by David A. White. This book was released on 1989. Myth and Metaphysics in Plato's Phaedo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study intends principally to isolate and describe the function of myth in the Phaedo in order to show its effect on the complex metaphysics developed throughout the dialogue. It further illustrates how these metaphysical concepts structure the dialogue's concluding eschatological myth.
