The Question of Being

by Rosen, Stanley

• ISBN13: 9781587316753
• ISBN10: 1587316757
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: St Augustine Pr Inc

Summary

In this book a distinguished philosopher enters into a debate with Heidegger in order to provide a justification of metaphysics. Stanley Rosen presents a fresh interpretation of metaphysics that opposes the traditional doctrines attached by Heidegger, on the one hand, and by contemporary philosophers influenced by Heidegger, on the other. Rosen refutes Heidegger's claim that metaphysics (or what Heidegger calls Platonism) is derived from the Aristotelian science of being as being. He argues instead that metaphysics is simply a commonsensical reflection on the nature of ordinary experience and on standards for living a better life.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Platonism
Platonism Is Aristotelianism	p. 3
Socrates' Hypothesis	p. 46
Presence and Absence	p. 96
Reversed Platonism
Nietzsche's Platonism	p. 137
The Seinsfrage	p. 176
The Culmination of Metaphysics	p. 212
Nihilism	p. 246
The History of Being	p. 291
Appendix	p. 317
Notes	p. 323
Index	p. 343
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