Metaphysics or Ontology?

482 Pages·2018·2.438 MB·English

by  Piotr Jaroszyński

Metaphysics or Ontology?
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Metaphysics or Ontology?
By
Piotr Jaroszyński
Translated from the Polish by
Hugh McDonald
leiden | boston
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Jaroszyński, Piotr, author.
Title: Metaphysics or ontology? / by Piotr Jaroszyński ; translated from the
Polish by Hugh McDonald.
Other titles: Metafizyka czy ontologia? English
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, 2018. | Series: Value inquiry
book series, ISSN 0929-8436 ; VOLUME 311. Gilson studies | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018001851 (print) | LCCN 2018002583 (ebook) | ISBN
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Subjects: LCSH: Metaphysics. | Ontology.
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To the memory of Hugh McDonald, friend and translator (1957–2015)
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Contents
Foreword xi
Robert Delfino
Preface xiii
Introduction 1
Part 1
On the Origin of Metaphysics
1 From Sophía to Philosophía 11
2 From Philosophy (philosophía) to Meta-physics
(tà metà tà physiká) 22
3 From tà metà tà physiká to Metaphysics 36
4 The Autonomy of Metaphysics 58
5 Ontology in the Middle Ages 61
Summary of Part 1 74
Part 2
The Rise of Ontology
6 Descartes and Malebranche—The Return of Augustinianism 77
7 British Philosophy: The Marginalization of Metaphysics 82
8 The Founders of Ontology: From Lorhard to Clauberg 90
9 Ontology before Metaphysics: From Wolff to Kant 100
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viii Contents
10 Logic as Ontology: Hegel 113
11 The Apotheosis of Mathematics: Bolzano, Frege, and Meinong 117
12 Phenomenology apart from Metaphysics: Husserl, Ingarden,
Heidegger 126
13 Metaphysics as Ontology: Nicolai Hartmann 148
14 Analytic Philosophy: A Metaphysics of Conceptual Schemata 155
15 Metaphysics or Ontology of Process? 164
16 Negative Ontology: Adorno 166
17 Postmoderism: The End of Metaphysics, or the End of Ontology? 176
Summary of Part 2 184
Part 3
Metaphysics or Ontology: Disputed Questions
18 Being or the Concept of Being? 189
19 Real Being or Possible Being? 210
20 Existence: Act or Modus? 232
21 Essence Instead of Being 263
22 Ontology: Unreal Reality 302
23 Ontology and the Object 315
24 Intentionality: Outside of Reality 343
25 Ontology and the Subject 356
26 Ontology and System 370
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Contents ix
27 Univocity or Analogy? 405
28 Metaphysics, Ontology, Onto-Theology? 421
Summary of Part 3 426
Conclusion 427
Bibliography 431
Index of Names 451
Index of Subjects 455
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