Graham Priest presents an original exploration of philosophical questions concerning the one and the many. He covers a wide range of issues in metaphysics--including unity, identity, grounding, mereology, universals, being, intentionality, and nothingness--and deploys the techniques of
paraconsistent logic in order to offer a radically new treatment of unity. Priest brings together traditions of Western and Asian thought that are usually kept separate in academic philosophy: he draws on ideas from Plato, Heidegger, and Nagarjuna, among other philosophers.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface: What One Needs to Know
- Part I: Unity
- 1: Gluons and their Wicked Ways
- 2: Identity and Gluons
- 3: Form, Universals, and Instantiation
- 4: Being and Nothing
- 5: A Case of Mistaken Identity
- Part II: In Plato's Trajectory
- 6: Enter Parmenides: Mereological Sums
- 7: Problems with the Forms--and their Solutions
- 8: The One--and the Others
- 9: In Search of Falsity
- 10: Perception, Intentionality, and Representation
- Part III: Buddhist Themes
- 11: Absence of Self, and the Net of Indra
- 12: Embracing the Groundlessness of Things
- 13: The World, Language, and their Limits
- 14: Peace of Mind
- 15: Compassion
- Bibliography
- Index