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Caitlin Smith Gilson - The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World, Inbunden

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The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World

A Confrontation Between St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger

Av Caitlin Smith Gilson

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The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World brings St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger into dialogue and argues for the necessity of Christian philosophy. Through the confrontation of Heideggerian and Thomist thought, it offers an original and comprehensive rethinking of the nature of temporality and the origins of metaphysical inquiry. The book is a careful treatment of the inception and deterioration of the four-fold presuppositions of Thomistic metaphysics: intentionality, causality, finitude, ananke stenai. The analysis of the four-fold has never before been done and it is a central and original contribution of Gilson's book. The four-fold penetrates the issues between the phenomenological approach and the metaphysical vision to arrive at their core and irreconcilable difference. Heidegger's attempt to utilize the fourfold to extrude theology from ontology provides the necessary interpretive impetus to revisit the radical and often misunderstood metaphysics of St. Thomas, through such problems as aeviternity, non-being and tragedy.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2010-02-25
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 496 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 236
  • Förlag: Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • ISBN: 9781441133465
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Caitlin Smith Gilson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX, USA.

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"I am unaware of any previous successful attempt to confront Heidegger's massive critique of metaphysics at such depth and range. Dr Smith-Gilson's conception of the four-fold intentional presupposition at the heart of metaphysics is an original conception of great merit and her work will be of immense interest to scholars of Heidegger, St Thomas, and well as to epistemologists and metaphysicians across a wide spectrum."- Prof. Juan Andres Mercado, Associate Professor of Modern Philosophy, The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy. "This work gives a needed voice to the still-true and still misunderstood pre-modern understanding of man, world, being, and God. Where the earlier Thomistic revivals confronted modernity by employing scholastic terminology to restate its vision, Dr. Smith-Gilson's work of retrieval confronts, at the highest intellectual level, modernity and especially its phenomenological presentation, with the words of philosophy simpliciter. This work is an apologia for the Thomistic vision of man, God, and being which is not itself apologetic or defensive. This is a profound and difficult work, but one that richly rewards the reader who gives himself to its meditation." -- Herb E. Hartmann, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Catholic University, GA, USA"

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