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Ascent to the Absolute

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Ascent to the Absolute

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Ascent to the Absolute book

Metaphysical Papers and Lectures

Ascent to the Absolute

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Ascent to the Absolute book

Metaphysical Papers and Lectures
ByJ. N. Findlay
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1970
eBook Published 15 March 2019
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429202094
Pages 268
eBook ISBN 9780429202094
Subjects Humanities
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Findlay, J.N. (1970). Ascent to the Absolute: Metaphysical Papers and Lectures (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429202094

ABSTRACT

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 addresses both traditions from ancient philosophy and the modern Anglo-American school of philosophy. The book discusses the case for a Perfect Being, a Necessary Being and, in a change to Findlay’s previous published thought, presents a case for mysticism.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |22 pages

I–III Three Lectures on Absolute-Theory 1

chapter Lecture I|22 pages

The Notion of an Absolute

chapter Lecture II|19 pages

The Absolute and Philosophical Problems

chapter Lecture III|20 pages

The Absolute and Rational Eschatology

chapter IV|12 pages

The Teaching of Meaning 1

chapter V|13 pages

Some Reflections on Necessary Existence 1

chapter VI|7 pages

Freedom and Value 1

chapter Chapter VII|21 pages

Metaphysics and Affinity 1

chapter VIII|17 pages

Hegel’s Use of Teleology 1

chapter IX|14 pages

The Diremptive Tendencies of Western Philosophy 1

chapter X|22 pages

The Logic of Mysticism 1

chapter XI|11 pages

Essential Probabilities 1

chapter XII|14 pages

The Logic of Ultimates 1

chapter XIII|19 pages

The Systematic Unity of Value 1

chapter XIV|20 pages

Intentional Inexistence

chapter XV|20 pages

Towards a Neo-neo-Platonism

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