Reconstituting Metaphysics Towards an Agapeic Community : William Desmond`s Plea for Metaxological Finesse / Davis V. A.

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1. William Desmond and the Nature of Metaphysics William Desmond and framing his Thinking ......20 Claims of Modernity, and the Question of Origin ........37 The structure of Metaphysics: A fourfold sense .........72 Metaphysics and equivocity ............87 Metaphysics and dialectics ..........98 Metaphysics and metaxology .........112 2. Metaxological Metaphysics : Selving, inteligibilities, and Mindfulness Origin and process of Selving : A promise of plurality .........133 Selving as a process of Becoming : Creation and human self ............156 Human self, Transcendence, and agapeic selving ............173 Intelligibilities and Understanding origin ...........191 Origin as plenitude : A metaphysics of mindfulness.........233 3. Metaphysical Integrity and openness: Agapeic Community and promises An integrity: Being, goodness and signs of the divine .........260 Agapeic community : Selves and others .........299 Metaxological Ways of Thinking : The possibilities ............338