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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"being as such"”.
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Aesthetics of Diagrammatic Contemplation: Abhinavagupta's and Martin Heidegger's Views on Being as Such and How It Can Be Disclosed Through Aesthetic Contemplation
… dimensions can be disclosed by surpassing the duality of subject/object perception through aesthetic contemplation. Heidegger's post-aesthetic approach aims to overcome the subject-object duality to uncover two hidden onto-epistemological dimensions: the mode of practical engagement …
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An enquiry into Nicolai Hartmann's appreciation of Nietzsche's axiology
… which, because of his now proverbial technical ascendancy and its train of spiritual impoverishment, he can indeed neglect to relearn the ability of exercising a wilful choice only at the risk of sacrificing his being as such - in such a world it is a fatal omission to neglect any thinker whose …
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Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion on the (im)possibility of negative theology.
… that lead to a hyper-theology affirming God as hyperousious. “Mystical theology” embodies this hyper-movement and, so, is no longer apophatic. For Marion, negative theology is not self-sufficient but ushers the hyperbolic and pragmatic mode of knowing God by unknowing or “denominating” God. …
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God and Nature: Retrieving Herman Bavinck's Approach to Natural Theology
… to the doctrine of natural theology is at least threefold. First, Bavinck understands an organic unity between general and special revelation. Second, Bavinck sharply distinguishes general revelation, offering a peculiarly neo-Calvinist account of it, from the “second moment” of natural …
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Beauty in Coleridge
… That is to say, beauty is a property of being as such. My entire argument seeks to defend this claim, to unfold its meaning, and to trace out its implications. In pursuing these objectives, I shall place beauty in relation to Coleridge’s broader philosophical, poetic, and theological …
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Placing nothingness: An investigation of cross-cultural philosophical encounters centred on the architecture of courtyards
Nothingness or void is a key concept in East Asian philosophy. For the ancient Chinese it permeated every aspect of culture and was integral with senses of being rather than a quality antithetical to being as such. Key in this study is the manner through which traditional Chinese courtyard …
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Language in Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: A Reading of Anacoluthon
… a utopian perspective on language’s materiality. As my Introduction outlines, set against the backdrop of a contemporary renewal in speculative philosophy, the present context is marked by a twofold limitation: (1) the perdurant marginalisation of Bloch’s form of utopian speculation, serving to …
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Labour migration and its impact on non-capitalist social formations : a comparative study of the Tonga and Ngoni-Tumbuka in Malawi, circa 1880 to 1940
… under review. An academic thesis of this nature has severe limits in that it cannot begin to grasp the day-to-day lived experience of those who were subjected to the. profiteering onslaught of colonial capitalism. · The separation of husbands from wives and children, this hunger and fear, the …