Truth and Actuality

Truth and Actuality
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Publisher : Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 8187326182
ISBN-13 : 9788187326182
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Truth and Actuality by : J. Krishnamurti

these deal with the problem of truth, the actuality in which we live as perceived by the senses, reality as appears to our consciousness, and the relationship between them. In the main part of the book Krishnamurti considers how man's consciousness is made up of all sorts of misconceptions about the 'me', or the ego centre; he also points out how solidly conditioned it is. 'You cannot go through reality to come to truth; you must understand the limitation of reality, which is the whole process of though, ' he says. The book ends with some questions and answers which throw light on certain issues previously touched upon

Actuality, Possibility, and Worlds

Actuality, Possibility, and Worlds
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9781441145161
ISBN-13 : 1441145168
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Actuality, Possibility, and Worlds by : Alexander R. Pruss

Actuality, Possibility and Worlds is an exploration of the Aristotelian account that sees possibilities as grounded in causal powers. On his way to that account, Pruss surveys a number of historical approaches and argues that logicist approaches to possibility are implausible. The notion of possible worlds appears to be useful for many purposes, such as the analysis of counterfactuals or elucidating the nature of propositions and properties. This usefulness of possible worlds makes for a second general question: Are there any possible worlds and, if so, what are they? Are they concrete universes as David Lewis thinks, Platonic abstracta as per Robert M. Adams and Alvin Plantinga, or maybe linguistic or mathematical constructs such as Heller thinks? Or is perhaps Leibniz right in thinking that possibilia are not on par with actualities and that abstracta can only exist in a mind, so that possible worlds are ideas in the mind of God?

Ways of Being

Ways of Being
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 9781501711503
ISBN-13 : 1501711504
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Synopsis Ways of Being by : Charlotte Witt

Charlotte Witt continues her highly regarded exploration of Aristotle's metaphysics in a book devoted to the ontological distinction between potentiality and actuality. She focuses on Metaphysics book ix, which provides the most sustained discussion of this distinction. Witt rejects the conventional reading of this key text—that Aristotle differentiated between the two concepts solely to further the investigation of substance. Instead, in an original interpretation of his work, she argues that his development of the distinction between "being x potentially" and "being x actually" allowed Aristotle to develop an intrinsically hierarchical and normative vision of reality.For Witt, Aristotle's views about being shed light on his puzzling use of gender language in his descriptions of reality. This language has become an important issue for feminist scholars who have noted that in Aristotle's metaphysics of substance form is sometimes associated with the male, and matter with the female. Witt's interpretation that Aristotelian reality is intrinsically hierarchical and normative, but not intrinsically gendered, offers a new, important understanding of a controversial aspect of Aristotle's metaphysics.

Cinema of Actuality

Cinema of Actuality
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9780822355045
ISBN-13 : 0822355043
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Cinema of Actuality by : Yuriko Furuhata

During the 1960s and early 1970s, Japanese avant-garde filmmakers intensely explored the shifting role of the image in political activism and media events. Known as the "season of politics," the era was filled with widely covered dramatic events from hijackings and hostage crises to student protests. This season of politics was, Yuriko Furuhata argues, the season of image politics. Well-known directors, including Oshima Nagisa, Matsumoto Toshio, Wakamatsu Kōji, and Adachi Masao, appropriated the sensationalized media coverage of current events, turning news stories into material for timely critique and intermedial experimentation. Cinema of Actuality analyzes Japanese avant-garde filmmakers' struggle to radicalize cinema in light of the intensifying politics of spectacle and a rapidly changing media environment, one that was increasingly dominated by television. Furuhata demonstrates how avant-garde filmmaking intersected with media history, and how sophisticated debates about film theory emerged out of dialogues with photography, television, and other visual arts.

Aristotle's Theory of Actuality

Aristotle's Theory of Actuality
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 0791422399
ISBN-13 : 9780791422397
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Aristotle's Theory of Actuality by : Z. Bechler

This is an attack on Aristotle showing that his misplaced drive toward the consistent application of his actualistic ontology (denying the reality of all potential things) resulted in many of his major theses being essentially vacuous.

Possibility and Actuality

Possibility and Actuality
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 524
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ISBN-10 : 9783110246681
ISBN-13 : 3110246686
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Possibility and Actuality by : Nicolai Hartmann

Nicolai Hartmann's Possibility and Actuality is the second volume of a four-part investigation of ontology. It deals with such questions as: How do we know that something is really possible? Is the possible only the actual? Is the actual only the possible? What is the difference between ideal and real possibility? This groundbreaking work of modal analysis describes the logical relations between possibility, actuality, and necessity, and it provides insight into the relations between modes of knowledge and modes of being. Hartmann reviews the history of philosophical concepts of possibility and necessity, from ancient Megarian philosophy to Aristotle, to Medieval Scholasticism, to Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel. He explains the importance of modal analysis as a basic investigative tool, and he proposes an approach to understanding the nature of human existence that unifies the fields of ontology, modal logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. This brilliant and fascinating work is relevant to many topics of debate in contemporary philosophy, including the ontology of possible worlds, the metaphysics of modality, the logic of counterfactual conditionals, and modal epistemology. It illuminates the nature of real, ideal, logical, and epistemic possibility.

The Actuality of Walter Benjamin

The Actuality of Walter Benjamin
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105021672279
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Synopsis The Actuality of Walter Benjamin by : Lynda Nead

This book shows how extraordinarily substantial were the theoretical footholds which Walter Benjamin supplied, and included are essays on Benjamin and the sources of Judaism, feminism and cultural analysis, and other writings.

Walter Benjamin and the Actuality of Critique

Walter Benjamin and the Actuality of Critique
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 9781527573161
ISBN-13 : 1527573168
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Walter Benjamin and the Actuality of Critique by : Carlo Salzani

The striking actuality of Walter Benjamin’s work does not rest on a supposed “usefulness” of his philosophy for current concerns, but rather on the high “legibility” to which his oeuvre has come in the present. Indeed, this legibility is a function of critique, which unearths the truth-content of a work in a constellation of reading with the present, and assures thereby that the work lives on. Following this methodological tenet, this book approaches Benjamin’s work with two foci: the actuality of his critique of violence, a central and unavoidable topic in the contemporary political-philosophical debate, and the actuality of his critique of experience, which perhaps is not as conspicuous as that of his critique of violence but constitutes, nonetheless, the bedrock upon which his whole philosophy rests.

Hegel's Actuality Chapter of the Science of Logic

Hegel's Actuality Chapter of the Science of Logic
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 127
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ISBN-10 : 9781498560573
ISBN-13 : 1498560571
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Hegel's Actuality Chapter of the Science of Logic by : Nahum Brown

This book explores Hegel’s theory of modality (actuality, possibility, necessity, contingency) through extremely close textual analysis of the “Actuality” chapter of Hegel’s Science of Logic. The “Actuality” chapter is the equivalence of Aristotle’s momentous Metaphysics book 9. Because of this, Hegel’s chapter deserves the same thorough investigation into its complex insights and argumentation. This book situates Hegel’s insights about possibility and necessity within historical and contemporary debates about metaphysics, while analyzing some of the most controversial themes of Hegel’s theory, such as the question of the ontological status of unactualized possibilities, the relationship between contradiction and possibility, and the claim that necessity leads to freedom. This book also contributes to an ongoing philosophical inquiry into the nature of dialectics by articulating Hegel’s “Actuality” chapter as a coherent argument divided into twenty-seven premises.

Happiness as Actuality in Nicomachean Ethics

Happiness as Actuality in Nicomachean Ethics
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 154
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ISBN-10 : 9781532659928
ISBN-13 : 153265992X
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Happiness as Actuality in Nicomachean Ethics by : Sorin Sabou

This is a study about the meaning of happiness (εὐδαιμονία) in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (EN). It is argued that εὐδαιμονία in EN means actuality, and it has to be interpreted through the lenses of two metaphors used by Aristotle in EN 1.7 1098a21 and 10.6 1176a30: the "perimeter of good" and the "imprint of happiness." To explain the meaning of happiness Aristotle first has to delineate the "perimeter of good" of human beings, and he does that with the help of two criteria: the final end [τέλος] and the function of humanity [ἔργον ἀνθρώπου]. These two criteria are metaphysical concepts which describe the "good" as the final metaphysical aim of every person, and the best every person can be. This metaphysical teleological aim is the "actuality of the soul" according with excellence. This is the "perimeter" within which Aristotle enquires about εὐδαιμονία--the good of humans.