8. The Being of Becoming in Pre-socratic Philosophy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Part One: Philosophy of Nature and Ontology
5. 1. Pure and Qualified Time 3
6. 2. Hartmann on Spacetime and Geometry 23
7. 3. Nicolai Hartmann’s Concept of Causality 45
8. 4. “The Role of the Missing Reason”: The Search for a Stratum-Specific Form of Determination in Nicolai Hartmann’s Theory of Life 65
9. 5. From Linearity to Co-Evolution: On the Architecture of Nicolai Hartmann’s Levels of Reality 81
10. 6. Flat, Hierarchical, or Stratified? Determination and Dependence in Social-Natural Ontology 109
11. Part Two: Hartmann and Others
12. 7. The Discovery of A Priori Knowledge: Hartmann’s Interpretation of Plato’s Theory of Recollection 135
13. 8. The Being of Becoming in Pre-socratic Philosophy 153
14. 9. Beings in the World: Elements for a Comparison between Nicolai Hartmann and Roman Ingarden 171
15. 10. The Place of Nicolai Hartmann’s Ontology in Konrad Lorenz’s Epistemology 191
16. Part Three: Individual and Objective Spirit
17. 11. Investigating Affectivity in light of Hartmann’s Layered Structure of Reality 209
18. 12. From Value Being to Human Being: The Ways of Nicolai Hartmann’s Anthropology 229
19. 13. Nicolai Hartmann and Natural Law 247
20. 14. Personality, Autonomy, Fairness: On Nicolai Hartmann’s Material Ethics of Value in the Age of Human Enhancement 267
21. 15. Modal Aesthetics 283
22. 16. Nicolai Hartmann’s Thoughts on Education 297
23. 17. “The Socratic Pathos of Wonder”: On Hartmann’s Conception of Philosophy 313
24. Author Index 333
25. Subject Index 335