From questions of being to the question of being as being -- Metaphysics as mediating dialogue at the crossroads of intersubjective, intercultural, and interreligious communication -- The necessity of metaphysics in the struggle for world peace and justice -- Metaphysics as the way from phenomenology to theology -- Transcendence and immanence at the end of metaphysics -- Metaphysics and the transcendence of cultures in religion -- Metaphysics as preamble to religious belief -- Imagining the world order in its onto-Christological suspense.
Summary:
"Metaphysics is not often spoken of as a venue for dialogue about anything, let alone culture or religion, which are more readily associated with phenomenology or hermeneutics in contemporary thinking. This collection of essays, however, by the late Boston College philosopher Oliva Blanchette, maintains the absolute necessity of metaphysics as a prerequisite for examining any particular 'realm of being,' in all areas of human inquiry, from the particular sciences to historical cultures and religions. Blanchette proposes metaphysics as a fundamental and necessary level of intelligence presupposed in any exercise of judgment, discourse, or dialogue, among rational beings. At the same time, he defends the idea that dialogue is the first and most fundamental form in which such reasoning takes place in human experience, on a radically intersubjective level through language"--Provided by publisher.
Series:
Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; volume 67
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