Abstract
Attempting to provide an ontological framework for the notion of the non-personal Universe of Being proposed elsewhere, this paper – after some basic definitions – focuses on substances, one pillar of that notion. It recognizes only to individual substances a material (vs. formal) existence, viewed as the entire complex of the properties instantiated in each of them. It then examines features of the general essence of substances (in primis their independence). While such essence can be comprehended via abstract definitions, their individual essence (‘this-ness’) cannot, I argue, because it is not a concept but a reality, which I refer to as Being. This manifests powers, is inexhaustible growth and is one, although expressed differently in each individual. The possible connection of the human being with this reality is the second pillar of the notion of the non-personal Universe of Being, which I summarize and compare to other scenarios at the end.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Original Papers
- Holism Resurfacing: How Far Should We Go With It?
- An Ontology for ‘The Universe of Being’
- Hume’s Thoroughly Relationist Ontology of Time
- The Implantation Argument: Simulation Theory is Proof that God Exists
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Modes
- Collocation and Constitution
- Personal Identity and the Hybrid View: A Middle Way
- Contra Static Dispositions
- Metaphysical Foundations of Causation: Powers or Laws of Nature?
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Original Papers
- Holism Resurfacing: How Far Should We Go With It?
- An Ontology for ‘The Universe of Being’
- Hume’s Thoroughly Relationist Ontology of Time
- The Implantation Argument: Simulation Theory is Proof that God Exists
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Modes
- Collocation and Constitution
- Personal Identity and the Hybrid View: A Middle Way
- Contra Static Dispositions
- Metaphysical Foundations of Causation: Powers or Laws of Nature?