The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-In-The-World: A Confrontation Between St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger

ISBN-13: 9781441195951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 236 str.

Caitlin Smith Gilson;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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Introduction
Chapter I Parmenides, Plato & Aristotle-- An Ontological Tracing Of Intentional Being-In-The-World
Tracing I How The Deity Entered Philosophy
Tracing II Plato's Parmenides
Tracing III Aristotle's De Anima

Chapter II St. Thomas Aquinas & Classical Intentionality
A. Introduction
B. Aristotle's Critique Of Earlier First Principles
C. An Account Of The Ananke Stenai
D. Concluding Remarks: An Overview Of Aristotle's Intentional Ground And Its Onto-Epistemological Method

Chapter III The Four-Fold Reversals: The Displacement Of Being-In-The-World
A. A Brief Discursus On Heidegger's Husserlian Influence
B. Heidegger's Commentary On The Critique Of Pure Reason
C. Finitude: Nullity Or No-Thing?
D. St. Thomas' Prima Via- A Brief Discursus On The Ananke Stenai

Chapter IV The Four-Fold Intensities
A. The Necessity Of The Causal Structure
B. The Wait And Christian Philosophy
C. Intentional Presence Qua Finitude
D. Summation Of Finitude: Revisiting The Wait
E. The Aeviternal Structure Of The Intentional Presence
F. Conclusion: The Plenitude Of The Ananke Stenai

Chapter V Tragedy In The Christian Philosophic Vision

Brief Conclusive Remarks
Bibliography--Primary Sources
Bibliography--Secondary Sources