Dynamis : Ontology of the incommensurable 1st ed.

Author

• Chiurazzi, Gaetano

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030690052

Series

Contributions to hermeneutics

Subject(s)

• HERMENEUTICS
• ONTOLOGY

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Abstract

This book offers a new and original hypothesis on the origin of modal ontology, whose roots can be traced back to the mathematical debate about incommensurable magnitudes, which forms the implicit background for Plato’s later dialogues and culminates in the definition of being as dynamis in the Sophist. Incommensurable magnitudes – also called dynameis by Theaetetus – are presented as the solution to the problem of non-being and serve as the cornerstone for a philosophy of difference and becoming. This shift also marks the passage to another form of rationality – one not of the measure, but of the mediation. The book argues that the ontology and the rationality which arise out of the discovery of incommensurable constitutes a thread that runs through the entire history of philosophy, one that leads to Kantian transcendentalism and to the philosophies derived from it, such as Hegelianism and philosophical hermeneutics.

Readers discover an insightful exchange with some of the most important issues in philosophy, newly reconsidered from the point of view of an ontology of the incommensurable. These issues include the infinite, the continuum, existence, and difference. This text appeals to students and researchers in the fields of ancient philosophy, German idealism, philosophical hermeneutics and the history of mathematics.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xiv, 179 p.)

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Chapter 1: A New Logos: from Sensation to Soul.-
Chapter 2. The Irruption of non-being: Being as Dynamis.-
Chapter 3. The Logic of Experience: The Transcendental Relation.-
Chapter 4. Ontology of the Possible: Existence, Quantification and Modality.-
Chapter 5. The Transformation of the Real: Infinite, Continuity and Event.-
Chapter 6. Beyond Dominion: A Microphysics of Freedom.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00606/22	121.686 Chi D	Online !	Available