PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics

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This paper examines Ibn Sīnā’s metaphysics as a critical synthesis of Aristotle’s philosophical framework and the emanationist scheme of Plotinus. While Ibn Sīnā adopts the Neoplatonic doctrine of emanation, he fundamentally reinterprets the nature of the first principle. By comparing Plotinus’ concept of the One with Ibn Sīnā’s Necessary Being, the paper argues that their apparent similarity as ultimate sources of …

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Departing from the conventional readings of Karl Marx’s Capital and other of his works, by way of François Laruelle’s “radicalization of concepts," Katerina Kolozova identifies a theoretical kernel in Marx’s thought whose critical and interpretative force can be employed without reference to its subsequent interpretations in the philosophical mainstream. The latter entails a process of abstracting a philosophical le…

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Why is there anything at all, instead of nothing? How are we to understand what it is to be? Heidegger argues, in magisterial, flowing and esoteric language, that Western civilisation has gone wrong because it has systematically misunderstood this question. Instead, he claims that we have tried to understand physical things themselves. We have confused appearance with reality: we have replaced understanding wi…

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