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