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This book presents detailed discussions from leading intercultural
philosophers, arguing for and against the priority of immanence in
Chinese thought and the validity of Western interpretations that
attempt to import conceptions of transcendence. The authors pay
close attention to contemporary debates generated from critical
analysis of transcendence and immanence, including discussions of
apophasis, critical theory, post-secular conceptions of society,
phenomenological approaches to transcendence, possible-world
models, and questions of practice and application. This book aims
to explore alternative conceptions of transcendence that either
call the tradition in the West into question, or discover from
within Western metaphysics a thoroughly dialectical way of thinking
about immanence and transcendence.
In this volume, scholars draw deeply on negative theology in order
to consider some of the oldest questions in the philosophy of
religion that stand as persistent challenges to inquiry,
comprehension, and expression. The chapters engage different
philosophical methodologies, cross disciplinary boundaries, and
draw on varied cultural traditions in the effort to demonstrate
that apophaticism can be a positive resource for contemporary
philosophy of religion.
Providing a clear interpretation of Hegel's characterizations of
possibility and actuality in the Science of Logic, this book
departs from the standard understandings of these concepts to break
new ground in Hegelian scholarship. The book draws out some of the
implications of Hegel's view of immanent possibility, especially as
it relates to Leibniz's thesis of modal optimism: his view that
this world is the best of all possible worlds. Reading Hegel as a
philosopher of possibility, against a tradition that has conceived
of him primarily as a philosopher of necessity, rationality, and
finitude, Nahum Brown demonstrates the historical background and
philosophical traditions from which Hegel's concept of possibility
emerges. Systematically outlining Hegel's conceptions of positive
and negative freedom, Brown reveals the Hegelian underpinnings of
our conception of reality and what it is to be in the world itself.
Original and convincing, this book is crucial for philosophers
approaching modality from any tradition.
This book explores Hegel's theory of modality (actuality,
possibility, necessity, contingency) through extremely close
textual analysis of the "Actuality" chapter of Hegel's Science of
Logic. The "Actuality" chapter is the equivalence of Aristotle's
momentous Metaphysics book 9. Because of this, Hegel's chapter
deserves the same thorough investigation into its complex insights
and argumentation. This book situates Hegel's insights about
possibility and necessity within historical and contemporary
debates about metaphysics, while analyzing some of the most
controversial themes of Hegel's theory, such as the question of the
ontological status of unactualized possibilities, the relationship
between contradiction and possibility, and the claim that necessity
leads to freedom. This book also contributes to an ongoing
philosophical inquiry into the nature of dialectics by articulating
Hegel's "Actuality" chapter as a coherent argument divided into
twenty-seven premises.
In this volume, scholars draw deeply on negative theology in order
to consider some of the oldest questions in the philosophy of
religion that stand as persistent challenges to inquiry,
comprehension, and expression. The chapters engage different
philosophical methodologies, cross disciplinary boundaries, and
draw on varied cultural traditions in the effort to demonstrate
that apophaticism can be a positive resource for contemporary
philosophy of religion.
This book presents detailed discussions from leading intercultural
philosophers, arguing for and against the priority of immanence in
Chinese thought and the validity of Western interpretations that
attempt to import conceptions of transcendence. The authors pay
close attention to contemporary debates generated from critical
analysis of transcendence and immanence, including discussions of
apophasis, critical theory, post-secular conceptions of society,
phenomenological approaches to transcendence, possible-world
models, and questions of practice and application. This book aims
to explore alternative conceptions of transcendence that either
call the tradition in the West into question, or discover from
within Western metaphysics a thoroughly dialectical way of thinking
about immanence and transcendence.
Providing a clear interpretation of Hegel's characterizations of
possibility and actuality in the Science of Logic, this book
departs from the standard understandings of these concepts to break
new ground in Hegelian scholarship. The book draws out some of the
implications of Hegel's view of immanent possibility, especially as
it relates to Leibniz's thesis of modal optimism: his view that
this world is the best of all possible worlds. Reading Hegel as a
philosopher of possibility, against a tradition that has conceived
of him primarily as a philosopher of necessity, rationality, and
finitude, Nahum Brown demonstrates the historical background and
philosophical traditions from which Hegel's concept of possibility
emerges. Systematically outlining Hegel's conceptions of positive
and negative freedom, Brown reveals the Hegelian underpinnings of
our conception of reality and what it is to be in the world itself.
Original and convincing, this book is crucial for philosophers
approaching modality from any tradition.
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