List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: HUMANNESS, METAPHYSICS, AND BEING
1. Secular Meditations
Death Birth Embodiment Consciousness Self-Identity Space Time Interconnectedness
2. The Many Dimensions of Humanness
Experience and Conceptualization Flatland: An Imaginative Model Imagination and Judgment Intentionality Sensing Conceptualization Reference to Being Implicit Features of Inwardness
3. Toward a Definition of Humanness
Observational Differences The Proximate Inner Ground: Rationality The Ultimate Ground: Metaphysicality "Soul" as Center of Meaning The Human Being as the Sick Animal The Human Being as Religious Animal The Human Being as Historical
4. Metaphysics and Practicality
The Meaning of Practicality Immanence Transcendence Relativity of Norms Levels of Transcendence Subjectivity and the Sacred Immanence and Transcendence Metaphysics and Practicality
5. Abstract and Concrete
Identifying the Context of the Terms Bodiliness and Concreteness Concreteness and Universality Object, Subject, Praxis
PART TWO: READING THE TRADITION Section A. The Ancient-Medieval Tradition
6. Parmenides
"Heart" as Starting Point The Logic of Being Historical Aftermath Heidegger's Approach
7. Plato
Metaphor and Allegory Dreaming in the Cave In the Light Geometry as Paradigm Eros and the Good Epilogue on Plotinus
8. Aristotle
Empiricism and the Principles of Changing Being The Hierarchy of Changing Being Knowing and Being Revisiting the One and the Good
9. Aquinas
Being and the Sensorily Given Essence-Esse and God Assimilation and Transformation of Aristotle "The Mystical" Analogy and the Transcendentals Presence to Being
Section B. The Modern Tradition
10. Rene Descartes
Methodic Doubt and the Cogito Being and God Cogito, World, God Response
11. Baruch Spinoza
Being as a Single Substance Freedom Unity Response
12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The Monad Hierarchy First Principles Response
13. Immanuel Kant
The Ground of Kant's Thought Sensibility Categories Reason The Moral Order Critique of Judgment Response
14. G.W.F. Hegel
The Comprehension of Christian Revelation The Phenomenology of Spirit The Logic of the Logos Nature and Spirit Absolute Spirit Response
15. Alfred North Whitehead
Whitehead and Modern Physics Whitehead and Plato Response
16. Martin Heidegger
Situating Heidegger Being, Truth, and Being-in-the-World The Light of Being Historicity and Authenticity The Play of the Fourfold The History of Truth and the Return to Meditative Thinking Response
Epilogue: The Metaphysical Basis of Dialogical Pluralism
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
