Metaphysics: Philosophy of Be-ing for Today

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Beginning .............1 What and Why ................3 How ?..........13 The Starting Point ......................13 The Direct Judgement as Starting Point .........15 Our Methodolgy: Transcendental analysis .............16 Preliminary Discovery: Direct Judgement is a movement ........17 Does all Knowledge aim at a Common Ultimate Goal? ............18 The common ultimate goal of all my knowledge is the Unlimited Being ...........18 But is this Unlimited Existence Real ..............19 Heidegger`s Purpose Achieved ..........21 Quite a Mixed Bag ...............22 2. On Being .............25 The Analogy of Being .......27 No mere Academic Issues .........28 Terminology .........28 Towards a Definition of Being ............30 The Activity of Direct Judgement Implies the Analogy of Being ..........33 A short historical on the Notion of Analogy ...........33 4. Transcendentals .............35 The Issues ......35 Why Transcendentals .........36 Relevance of this Quest ...............36 Our Method .........37 The Discovery of the Transcendentals .........37 5. Change ................51 The phenomenon ..........51 An Illusion ........52 Parmenides Problem ...............52 Aristotle`s Answer...........52 Change is not Substitution ........54 Thomistic Metaphysics ............54 6. Relations..............57 7. The person ...........66 Causality ..........81 3. On Be-Ing of Beings .............89 Be-Ing ........91 Heidegger and Marechal ...91 God, The unlimited Existence .....92 The Be-Ing of Beings is Personal ..............93 Responding to Being ............95