Metaphysics
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Thoughts on Being and Unity
In 2012, while working in a postdoctoral position at St. John’s University, I became deeply immersed in Immanuel Kant’s monumental question: whether metaphysics, as the study of reality and existence, is possible as a science. This inquiry led me deep into the history of philosophy, from the early Pythagoreans to the Scholastic thinkers of the Continue reading
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A Few Thoughts on Kant and Metaphysics
Anyone familiar with Immanuel Kant’s famous Critique of Pure Reason (1781), or at least the main argument of that work, will know that it had a cataclysmic effect on metaphysics, a discipline which harkens back to the ancient Greeks. Kant’s argument in that work is that all knowledge can be accounted for on the basis Continue reading