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" Relational metaphysic. "
H H Oliver
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773967
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b593961
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H H Oliver
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Relational metaphysic.\ H H Oliver
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[Place of publication not identified] : Springer, 2013
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940098250X
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: 9789400982505
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One: A New Paradigm in Physics and Metaphysics.- to Part One.- I. The Subject-Object Paradigm and its Debt to Classical Physics.- A. Newton versus Leibniz: Physics and Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century.- 1. Newton's "Laws".- 2. Absolute Time and Space.- 3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.- B. Kant's Critical Philosophy and Its Roots in Physics.- 1. Kant's Pre-critical Philosophy.- 2. Kant's Critical Philosophy.- C. The Newtonian Era in Science and Philosophy.- II. The Emergence of a Relational Paradigm in Modern Physics and Philosophy.- A. The Collapse of the Newtonian World and Its Paradigm.- B. The Emergence of a Relational Paradigm.- 1. In Modern Physics.- a. Special and General Relativity.- b. Quantum Theory.- 2. In Modern Metaphysics.- a. Alfred North Whitehead: His Physics and Metaphysics.- i. The Mathematical-Physical Foundations.- ii. Whitehead's Metaphysical Vision.- b. Systems Philosophy.- i. General Systems Theory: von Bertalanffy.- ii. A Systems Metaphysic: Laszlo.- (a) Fundamentals.- (b) Universe as Systems Matrix.- Conclusion to Part One.- Two: Foundations of a Relational Metaphysic.- to Part Two.- III. A Relational Axiom: The Doctrine of Universal Internality.- A. The Modern Debate on Internal versus External Relations.- 1. F.H. Bradley: "All Relations Are Internal".- 2. Bertrand Russell: "All Relations Are External".- 3. G.E. Moore: "Some Relations Are Internal, Some External".- 4. An Interlude: A.C. Ewing.- B. Contemporary Options.- 1. Charles Hartshorne: "A Logic of Ultimate Contrasts".- 2. Brand Blanshard: "The Coherent World".- C. A Relational Axiom: The Thesis of Universal Internality.- IV. A Step "Beyond": Relation is Fundamental.- A. Relational Ontology in statu nascendi.- 1. Ludwig Feuerbach.- 2. Martin Buber's Ontology of "das Zwischen".- 3. Syed A.R. Zaidi: "Towards a Relational Metaphysics".- B. A Relational Metaphysic.- 1. The Law of a Relational Metaphysic.- 2. Fundamental Tenets of a Relational Metaphysic.- a. The Relational Paradigm: Relations and Perspects.- i. Relations are fundamental.- ii. The terms of relations, i.e. the "relata," are derivatives of experience which, because they arise from bi-perspectival viewing, are called "Perspects".- b. The Hierarchy of Relations and Their Perspects.- i. Simple Relations and Their Bi-Perspects: A Paradigm for a Relational Ontology.- ii. Composites of Relations and Their Compound Perspects.- (a) Composites of Relations.- (b) Compound Perspects.- (1) The Subject Self.- (2) Object-Things.- (3) Object-Selves.- iii. The Totality of Relations and Their Omni-Perspects.- (a) The Totality of Relations.- (b) The Omni-Perspects: GOD and WORLD.- (1) The Ingressive Omni-Perspect: GOD.- (2) The Effective Omni-Perspect: WORLD.- V. Fundamentals and Pseudo-Fundamentals.- A. The Phenomenological Disclosure of Fundamentals.- B. The Genesis of Pseudo-Fundamentals (i.e Derivatives).- 1. The Rational Objectivation of Myth.- 2. The Visual Bias.- 3. Epistemological Bifurcation.- Conclusion to Part Two.- Notes.- Name Index.
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BD111.H465 2013
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