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Science, Thomism, and The Future of Metaphysics.
- Source :
- Providence; Spring/Summer2002, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p1-19, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2002
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Abstract
- Discusses how most moderns and post-moderns find First Philosophy, or Metaphysics nonsense. Argument by Martin Heidegger that from Plato to our day, Western thought has been destined to a progressive "forgetfulness of Being"; Scientific technology that deals no longer with Being but only with "beings"; Western man who believes he controls nature by controlling thought; Opinion of Heidegger's disciple and critic Jacques Derrida; Rejection of metaphysics by European and British-American Analytic philosophers; Thomists, the chief defenders of the validity of metaphysics.
- Subjects :
- PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHERS
METAPHYSICS
THOUGHT & thinking
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10637974
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Providence
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 14245392