In Thinking Being, Perl articulates central arguments and ideas regarding the nature of reality in Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Thomas Aquinas, thematizing the indissoluble togetherness of thought and being, and focusing on continuity rather than opposition within this tradition.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents Abbreviations Introduction
1. The nature of metaphysics
2. The scope of this study
3. Thought and being
Chapter I. Parmenides 1. Milesian background 2. Being and thinking 3. What is being?
Chapter II. Plato 1. Reading Plato 2. Being as form 3. The meaning of separation
4. The levels of being
5. The ascent of the soul
6. Knowledge as sunousiva
7. The good
8. The forms and the demiurge
9. The motion of intellect
10. The receptacle of becoming
Chapter III. Aristotle 1. The principles of change 2. Nature as form 3. Reality as form: Metaphysics Z 4. The priority of act 5. The unmoved mover 6. Life, sense, and intellect: On the Soul
Chapter IV. Plotinus 1. Being and intellect 2. The One beyond being 3. The production of being 4. Transcendence and immanence 5. Being as beauty 6. The sensible and the intelligible 8. The two matters
Chapter V. Thomas Aquinas 1. Aquinas and the philosophical tradition 2. Essence and existence 3. God as existence itself 4. Creatures and God 5. Analogical predication 6. The transcendentals Bibliography
