By investigating Aristotle's belief (as stated in the Metaphysics) at all living beings are substances, this book answers the question of whether artifacts are substances. By arguing that the two criteria of substantiality are "eternity" and "actuality" (thereby excluding some organisms), and by covering Aristotle's theory of an and nature as well as his embryology, Aristotle on Artifacts offers a novel way of dealing with a number of highly ...

This book examines some of the central logical and epistemological doctrines of British idealist philosopher, F. H. Bradley. Through a detailed analysis of Bradley's doctrine of judgment and its relation to "feeling", Phillip Ferreira views as mistaken recent efforts to see Bradley as a writer in the tradition of anglo-empiricism. And, though the significance of Bradley's thought remains great, Ferreira contends that it stands at a considerable ...

Evolution in operation. Nature evolves a Man. Man, co-operating with nature, evolves a "Master." The Master- Man co-operating with and controlling the forces, activities and processes of nature. ...

The understanding of ontology that is elaborated in this essay is one that sees ontology as the linguistically conditioned account of what is and of what existence is, an account which becomes, coordinately and equally, onto-theology and onto-anthropology, in which latter, the nature of person is adumbrated as transcendence towards Beings as value and value of Being. Notions examined include language, entity, contingency, temporality, Divinity, ...

Within this book is a historical interpretation of Meister Eckhart's philosophical thought and because Eckhart is a philosopher worthy of thought, we are now able to not only understand his doctrine in its historical setting, but also to pursue a definite metaphysical position to its ultimate implications. ...

Described as one of the pathbreaking works in 20th-century philosophical theology. this work presents Hartshorne's rehabilitation of Anselm's "Ontological Argument", recast in neoclassical form as "the Modal Proof", along with applications of Hartshorne's method to a variety of issues in contemporary metaphysical and religious thinking. ...

This volume contains the Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of Aberdeen in the years 1912 and 1913. Contents: Hume's dialogues concerning natural religion; Kant and the idea of intrinsic value; 19th century duel between idealism and naturalism; liberating influence of biology; lower and the higher naturalism; man as organic to the world; ethical man, the religion of humanity; positivism and agnosticism; idealism and pan-psychism; ...

Contents: strenuous life material; the universe, its laws, its destinies and the role man is assigned to play in it; our duty toward all existence; our higher self, discipline of the lower self; environment, its influence; his honor the judge; is marriage a failure, is divorce a crime or a benediction; habits of thought, cell clusters. ...

Between the visions of Swedenborg & those of the metaphysicians of his time, Kant drew a surprising parallel. Swedenborg believed himself to be a familiarly acquainted with the beyond as with his own house. Was not the case the same with the philosophers? Kant believed himself to be in a position to explain these delusions, the one by the other, and so to get rid of both. So entirely did Kant look down upon Swedenborg & his contemporaries ...

Labyrinths of Exemplarity presents the first comprehensive, in-depth study of the problem of exemplarity -- or how we move between the general and the particular in order to try to understand our world. The author's focus ranges from the most basic and fundamental issues of what examples are and where they come from to the complex key issues of how examples function in the discourses they inhabit and what this functioning tells us about the ...