Orphans of the One Or the Deception of the Immanence: Essays on the Roots of SecularizationPeter Lang, 2010 - 239 pagine Through a collection of essays in metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, this book explores the evolution of the idea of the One and Many. Since Parmenides' dichotomy of One and Many, the One of the ancient cosmogonies has been reduced to a pole of our thought, a sterile identity which has been identified with truth but cannot bring forth nor give order to the Many. The author reflects on how the Parmenidean dichotomy has led, for many centuries after Parmenides, to the metaphysical attempts to reduce the Many to the One, causing unsolvable epistemological problems, and to the metaphysical dissolution of the One in the Many of time, causing the moral crisis of the West. Further, this study analyses the epistemic and spiritual impasse of the West and shows a possible solution to this problem: to unearth the forgotten dichotomy, the key to understand millenarian philosophical problems, such as consciousness, movement and causality, which are deadlocked because they all stem from the reduction of temporal phenomena within the framework of a rational thought which is unable to account for the non-identical. |
Sommario
Introduction The Deception of the Immanence | 9 |
Consciousness as the One SelfSame Thought that Represents the Many | 33 |
Platos parricide Selfidentity from Ontological to Formal Principle | 69 |
Aristotles Ontologization of Change Many is actually One | 95 |
The Return of the One to Thought | 113 |
A Phenomenal Theory of Causality | 133 |
The Presumption of Movement | 163 |
The Selfdeception of Nihilism | 195 |
Bibliography | 235 |
Parole e frasi comuni
absolute absurd aeterno argue Aristotle atoms Augustine Band becoming causal causal relation cause Cogito conceive conceptualized cosmogonic Descartes duration Eleatic electron epistemic epistemological equalization Essay essence eternal existence experience fact foundation framework fundamental happening human thought human zoon Hume identity and change identity of thought immanent immanentization impossibility incommensurable infinite instant irrational Kant knowledge Leibniz logical logico-reductivistic mathematical mathesis universalis means metaphysical metaphysical thought moral movement mythopoiesis nature necessary necessity never Nietzsche nihilism nihilistic non-being non-identical ontological Papa-Grimaldi Parmenidean dichotomy Parmenides parricide phenomenal philosophical photon physics Plato position possible post-modern praxis principle of intelligibility problem prohibition quantum quantum measurement reality reason reduced reductivistic relativism scepticism scientific secularization self-evident self-identical self-same sense simple Socratic Sophist speculative thought sub-events super-position tautological temporal consciousness temporal dimension temporal order thinkable tradition transcendent true truth ultimate understanding unity West Western thought whilst Zeno's paradoxes