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Index
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Toward a Concept of Metaphysics
Its Origins
Chapter 1. Parmenides: The Evidence of Being
The Fragmentary and Almost Incomprehensible Character of Pre-Platonic Thought
The Context of Presocratic Thinking on Nature
An Oral, Therefore Poetic, Culture
A Goddess’s Revelation
The Enigma of Being
The Legacy of Parmenides’ Onto-Theology
The Sophistic Crisis: Human Discourse Left to Its Own Devices
Chapter 2. Plato: The Hypothesis of the Idea
The Indirect Character of Plato’s Writings
Parmenides’ Legacy
Being Attentive to the Eidos
The Separation of the Ideas
An Effort at Reminiscence
Dialectics, or Minding Being Itself
The Exemplary Ideality of Mathematics
The “Metaphysical” Separation of the Line: Republic VI
The Idea of the Good’s Supereminence
The Demiurge’s Cosmos: The Same and the Different
The Principle of the One in Plato’s Academy
Chapter 3. Aristotle: The Horizons of First Philosophy
The Text and Object of Metaphysics
A Science of First Principles
The Theory of Causes
It Is a Science of Being as Being
The Onto-Theological Perspective of Metaphysics E, 1
The Many Meanings of Being
First Philosophy as Ousiology: Metaphysics Z
The Theology of Metaphysics Λ
Chapter 4. The Last Summit of Classical Metaphysics: The Neoplatonic Eruption
Plotinus’s Metaphysics of the One
Augustine’s Christianization of Metaphysics
Chapter 5. Metaphysics and Theology in the Middle Ages
A “Metaphysical” Era?
The Importance of Pistis
Anselm and the Ontological Argument
Avicenna: The Metaphysics of the Shifa
Averroes’s Critique of Avicenna
The Object of Metaphysics According to Thomas Aquinas
Whether God Exists? The Five Ways
The Idea of a Scientia Transcendens in Scholastic Thought from Duns Scotus to Suarez: The Origin of Ontol
Chapter 6. Descartes: First Philosophy According to the Cogito
Is there a Cartesian Metaphysics?
First Meditation: What Can Be Called Into Doubt, or Classical Metaphysics Brought Into Question
Second Meditation: I Think, I Am—the Metaphysics of the Cogito
Third Meditation: Concerning God, That He Exists—the Return to the Metaphysics of Divinity
The Legacy of Descartes’s Double Metaphysics
Chapter 7. Spinoza and Leibniz: The Metaphysics of Simplicity and Integral Rationality
Ethical Metaphysics: Spinoza
Leibniz and the Search for the Metaphysics of Substantial Forms
Chapter 8. Kant: Metaphysics Turned Critical
Natural Metaphysics
Is Metaphysics Possible as Science?
Kant and the Ancients’ Transcendental Philosophy: Phenomena and the Things in Themselves
Critique and Metaphysics
The Metaphysics of Freedom
The “Metaphysics” of the Highest Good
Can the Existence of God Be Demonstrated?
The Future of Metaphysics After Kant
Chapter 9. Metaphysics After Kant?
Was There Any Metaphysics After Kant?
Science and System in Kant
The Idealist Dismissal of the Metaphysics of the Thing-in-Itself
Reinhold’s First Philosophy
Fichte and the Metaphysics of the I
Schelling’s Metaphysics of Identity
The Later Schelling’s Metaphysics
Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit
Post-Hegelian Metaphysics: A Primitive State or an Artistic Affair
Chapter 10. Heidegger: The Resurrection of the Question of Being in the Name of Overcoming Metaphysics
The Project of a Destruction of the History of Ontology
The Twofold Priority of the Question of Being
Metaphysics: The Experience of Our Being Par Excellence (1929)
The Onto-Theo-Logical Constitution of Metaphysics
The Technological and Nihilist Completion of Metaphysics
The Unsettling of the Principle of Reason
The Theological Scope of Heidegger’s Overcoming of Metaphysics
A Secretly Metaphysical Philosophy?
Chapter 11. On Metaphysics Since Heidegger
The Rediscovery of the History of Metaphysics
The Rediscovery of the Metaphysics of Existence: From Gilson to Sartre
The Rediscovery of the Metaphysics of Language: From Gadamer to Derrida
The Rediscovery of the Metaphysics of Transcendence: Levinas 3
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Note on References
Notes
Further Reading
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