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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458227803321

Autore

Smith Gilson Caitlin

Titolo

The metaphysical presuppositions of being-in-the-world [[electronic resource] ] : a confrontation between St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger / / Caitlin Smith Gilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Continuum, c2010

ISBN

1-4411-8014-1

1-282-57683-6

9786612576836

1-4411-2367-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Disciplina

110

Soggetti

Intentionality (Philosophy)

Metaphysics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 The Fourfold Historical Origin of Metaphysics; Chapter 2 St. Thomas Aquinas and Classical Intentionality; Chapter 3 The Fourfold Reversals: The Displacement of Being-in-the-World; Chapter 4 The Fourfold Intensities; Epilogue: The Metaphysics of Tragedy; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World brings St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger into dialogue and argues for the necessity of Christian philosophy. Through the confrontation of Heideggerian and Thomist thought, it offers an original and comprehensive rethinking of the nature of temporality and the origins of metaphysical inquiry. The book is a careful treatment of the inception and deterioration of the four-fold presuppositions of Thomistic metaphysics: intentionality, causality, finitude, ananke stenai. The analysis of the four-fold has never before been done and it is a