Originally published in 1970. This book is a collection of lectures and papers given by Professor Findlay in the 1960s. The theme is an argument for a metaphysical Absolute, in the sense of post-Hegelian Idealism. Findlay's word for the Absolute process is 'Enterprise', which must be necessary in thought and reality. This ontological argument goes further that previous cosmological arguments and addresses both traditions from ancient philosophy and the modern Anglo-American school of philosophy. The book discusses the case for a Perfect Being, a Necessary Being and, in a change to Findlay's previous published thought, presents a case for mysticism.
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Ascent to the Absolute
Metaphysical Papers and Lectures
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PhilosophieINDEX
Absolute, 17–77, 171–5, 195–208, 225–7
Absolute Idea (in Hegel), 101, 135, 137–9, 142–3
Abstraktion (die seiende), 144
Act-matters, 240
Affinity, 124–30
Alienation, 174–5
Alternative Absolutes, 24, 198
Anaximenes, 19
Angels, 71, 160
Anselm, 39, 90, 96, 197, 202
Anti-absolutism, 20
Antinomies of value, 212
Arbitrariness, 107–8
Aristotle, 39, 69, 70, 81, 116–17, 131, 137, 143, 149, 243, 247, 251, 258
Auffassungen, 234
Augustine, 82–3, 236
AUM, 37
Aussereinander, 47–8, 51
Austin, J. L., 114, 171
Ayer, A. J., 85, 89
Barzin, M., 87, 89
Begriff (Hegelian), 137, 262
Belongingness (notional), 171
Berkeley, G., 84, 131, 144
BhagavadGita, 148–9
Bradley, F. H., 18, 112, 131, 152–3
Brahman, 66, 75, 160
Brentano, F., 112, 193, 228, 235
Bruno, G., 152
Buddhism, 63, 66, 73–5, 91, 156, 159, 167–9, 182, 221
Butler, J., 220
Caprice, 107–9
Casualness, 30
Causality, 50, 60, 126; — of Forms, 35–6, 254
Church, A., 239
Classes, 46
Close-knitness (of Absolute), 26, 200–1
Consciousness and Absolute, 31–2, 41
Content of Absolute,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedicated
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- I–III Three Lectures on Absolute-Theory:
- II The Absolute and Philosophical Problems
- III The Absolute and Rational Eschatology
- IV The Teaching of Meaning
- V Some Reflections on Necessary Existence
- VI Freedom and Value
- VII Metaphysics and Affinity
- VIII Hegel’s Use of Teleology
- IX The Diremptive Tendencies of Western Philosophy
- X The Logic of Mysticism
- XI Essential Probabilities
- XII The Logic of Ultimates
- XIII The Systematic Unity of Value
- XIV Intentional Inexistence
- XV Towards a Neo-neo-Platonism
- Index
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