The Fundamental Problems of Western Metaphysics

Xavier Zubiri

doi:10.5771/9780761848790

Summary

This book introduces the profound reflections of Xavier Zubiri (1898-1983) on the history of philosophy to English-speaking audiences. As a philosopher who rethought much of philosophy and theology, Zubiri felt it necessary to be in continuous dialogue with earlier thinkers both to avoid past mistakes and to extract all that is valuable from them. The theme of the present book is the transcendental in Western philosophy and how a firm grasp of it reveals underlying unity in Western philosophy, but also fundamental problems that Zubiri believed require a complete rethinking of certain basic notions and theories. Zubiri develops this theme by analyzing the work of six major philosophers: Aristotle, St. Thomas, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel. To conclude, he sketches his own resolution of the problems of Western philosophy, a subject addressed in greater depth in his major work, Sentient Intelligence. This translation was made possible by a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-4877-6
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-4879-0
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 238
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
Translator's Introduction No access Pages 1 - 2
Editor's Introduction No access Pages 3 - 6
1. I. East and West No access
2. II. What is metaphysics? No access
3. III. Ground of metaphysics No access
4. IV. Problematic character of the ground of metaphysics No access
1. §1. Philosophical Search Before Aristotle: The Quest for the őv No access
2. §2. Difficult Character of This Search No access
3. 1. I. Aristotelian idea of őv, the őv and the framework of change No access
  2. II. First philosophy as a science that is searched for No access
1. 1. I. The idea of philosophy as metaphysics No access
  2. II. Object of metaphysics and the idea of being No access
2. 1. I. Entification of the real. Framework of nothingness and the intrinsic finitude of created being No access
  2. II. The entification of God No access
3. §3. The Nature of Metaphysics No access
1. §1. The Framework of Nothingness: Uncertainty No access
2. 1. I. Doubt and certainty No access
  2. II. Certainty and evidence No access
  3. III. Evidence and truth No access
1. §1. Leibniz' Problem. The Framework of Nothingness: Possibility No access
2. 1. I. Idea and possibility No access
  2. II. Possibility and reality No access
  3. III. Structure of the transcendental order No access
  4. IV. Philosophy as science of the principles of reason No access
1. §1. Introduction. The Framework of Nothingness: Objectuality No access
2. §2. Kant's Problem No access
3. 1. I. The principle of the transcendental No access
  2. II. Constitution of the transcendental order No access
  3. III. Unity of Kantian metaphysics No access
1. §1. Hegel's Problem. The Framework of Nothingness: The Absolute and Reason No access
2. 1. I. Discovery of reason. From consciousness to Absolute knowledge No access
  2. II. Internal structure of reason No access
  3. III. The realization of reason No access
1. 1. I. Ratio, intellectus concipiens, noûs No access
  2. II. Sensibility No access
2. 1. I. Sensing and that which is given in sensing No access
  2. II. The nature of intellection No access
  3. III. Sentient intelligence No access
  4. IV. Transcendental reason and the problem of Metaphysics No access
Index No access Pages 235 - 238