1st Edition

Ascent to the Absolute Metaphysical Papers and Lectures

By J N Findlay Copyright 1970
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Preface 1. The Notion of an Absolute 2. The Absolute and Philosophical Problems 3. The Absolute and Rational Eschatology 4. The Teaching of Meaning 5. Some Reflections on Necessary Existence 6. Freedom and Value 7. Metaphysics and Affinity 8. Hegel’s Use of Teleology 9. The Diremptive Tendencies of Western Philosophy 10. The Logic of Mysticism 11. Essential Probabilities 12. The Logic of Ultimates 13. The Systematic Unity of Value 14. Intentional Inexistence 15. Towards a Neo-neo-Platonism

Biography

J. N. Findlay