Concepts in metaphysics

sense of Being and Being itself matters. This conceptual access to the question of Being can only be possible through an examination of the being of the particular kind of entity that is the human being, a human structure, which he calls Dasein. The concept of Dasein is fundamental and crucial for Heidegger’s project in Being and Time and for existential philosophy in general. More broadly, and in the context of traditional German philosophy, Dasein denotes being, existence. However, Heidegger…

to understand the universe and the concepts that dominate our daily life. This thirst for knowledge resulted in the development of such things as science, philosophy, and religion. Western philosophy started in Greece and spread further to America and Australia. The word philosophy comes from the Greek word philosophia which means “love of wisdom.” philosophy has many different fields, domains, and branches: Aesthetics, Epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, political philosophy, philosophy…

I am definitely with him on this view of the soul: I believe my body will rot but my soul will live on. We also learn about Saint Augustine, a Christian philosopher and bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa. His synthesis of Platonic and Christian concepts was a major influence in the development of medieval Christian doctrine and Western philosophy (p98). We continue on to meet John Locke an English philosopher and physician. He laid the groundwork for an empiricist approach to philosophical…

1150 with Peter Lombard’s Four Volumes of Opinion—an effort to align human reason with the high value placed on faith during the papacy-dominated middle ages—did not reach fruition until Aquinas succeeded in systematically combining Artistotle’s metaphysics with Christian theology (Brennan, 2003). Aristotle’s view of the metaphysical unity of the body and soul was hylomorphic (the conceptual foundation of most of his theories,…

Each person has his or her way of perceiving things depending on several factors including the culture in which a person is brought up and the type of education that an individual receives in the course of life. The combination of all the perceptions a person develops in life creates his or her view of the world and amounts to what reality is. Those perceptions can change over time. Therefore, the way of understanding reality is not static for everyone. In-depth interviews with many people will…

a revision of Berkeleyan idealism, a doctrine which proclaims that there are no external material bodies, and all that exists in the world are minds and ideas. Before the first and the second editions of the Critique, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics was released, in which Kant both clarifies points made in the Critique and responds this accusation (Heide 26 Nov). This paper will first explicate his account of transcendental idealism as found in the Critique and compare it to the reply to…

Dualism: Cartesian Substance Dualism Substance dualism is the thesis that there are substances of two fundamentally and irreducibly distinct kinds in this world, namely mind and bodies. Dualism of this form contrasts with monism which is defined as all thing in the world are substances of one kind either only mind or only body. According to the Cartesian substance dualism, minds are not identical with material things, minds could exist even if no material thing existed. Mind is thought to be…

There are always discussions about existence in philosophy such as seeking the meaning of human existence, or a reflection about what existence is itself. But here, the existence and ontology should be distinguished. The former indicates the things that exist in the world, the things that are to disappear after they exist, and the things that are to come and to exist. The latter states the ideas, beliefs, assertions, and theories about existence. Ontology has three layers: descriptive,…

A concept is a guideline for how we combine fragments into a whole, what he calls separate fragments, is identified as a manifold. Accordingly, a concept is a guideline for how we synthesize a manifold. The account of synthesis enables us with the ability to apprehend and recollect experiences, leaving us with the categories. Furthermore…

argument tries to establish the existence of God from the definition of a supreme being. Since god is the Supreme Being, than nothing greater can be thought. Everyone seems to know what the word, God entails. St. Anselm claims that since God exists as a concept in everyone's mind, he must also exist in reality. So in that case, God's existence is greater than any idea we have of him, therefore he must exist. Because the idea of God being real within our mind makes us believe that it is a huge…