Philosophy as Metaphysics

The Torino Lectures

by Figal Gunter

Book cover: Philosophy as Metaphysics

Extent: 177 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Philosophy

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(May 2019)

ISBN: 9783161557347

Price: $31.00

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What makes philosophy metaphysical? Understood as the search for truth, philosophy has led those seeking it to the question of Being, says Gunter Figal. He shows that because this devotion to truth and Being are the heart of metaphysics, it is what makes up philosophy?s metaphysical character. Figal embraces this, and, leaving arguments for simple affirmation aside, offers instead a critical discussion of the positions adopted by metaphysical philosophy?s founding fathers, Parmenides, Plato and Aristotle. Alongside a phenomenological transformation of the latter?s ontology, Figal also sets out why he regards metaphysics as just one philosophical perspective among others, and not as a dominating `first philosophy?. The outcome is philosophy as a de-centered, non-hierarchical and liberating project.

  • By (author) Gunter Figal