This book is formidable work of philosophical synthesis. By introducing dialectical argumentation, it casts the problematic of analogous being in a new light. In the process it illuminates the main issues that arise in classical philosophy. The examination of the Pre-Socratics is especially important as introducing cosmological categories. These are taken up in a dialectical sequence that culminates in Kepler's Laws. The result is a metaphysical standpoint beyond mechanism. The physical world is understood not as a system of external relations but as an organic totality, self-determining and free.
ISBN: | 9780820419282 |
Publication date: | 1st February 1993 |
Author: | David A Harris |
Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 130 pages |
Series: | American University Studies. |
Genres: |
Philosophy Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge Social and political philosophy |