Compositions of Being: Metaphysical and Non-Metaphysical Ways of Understanding and Discerning Them

• Authors: Andrzej Maryniarczyk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article discusses different ways of understanding compositions of being, and different methods for discerning them. It considers non-metaphysical (physical, scientistic, phenomenological, abstractionist) interpretations in order to decide whether metaphysics can use them to discover and gain knowledge of the elements that determine the deepest structure of beings, and which set their mode of being. The paper also shows how much the metaphysical method for discerning the compositions of being is different from non-metaphysical methods.

Keywords

EN

ontic; subontic; composition; being; method; discernment; metaphysics; physics; scientism; phenomenology; abstractionism; interpretation; structure; nature; whole; part

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 269-286

Dates

published

2017-06-30

Contributors

author

Andrzej Maryniarczyk

• John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

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Identifiers

ISSN

2300-0066