Recently added articles from The Review of Metaphysics:
Substantial simplicity in Leibniz: form, predication, & truthmakers.(Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... I ACCORDING TO LEIBNIZ, (1) there are constraints on what counts as a genuine individual substance. (2) Four such constraints are derivative from the Aristotelian and scholastic traditions: substances are (1) independent; (3) (2) essentially active; (4) (3) persistent through ...
Philosophy and the logic of modernity: Hegel's dissatisfied spirit.(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... HUMANITY'S FALL IS A CENTRAL THEME in Hegel's thought. In his case the Fall is inflicted by human cognition and thinking. It is not sinfulness per se that announces humanity's distinctiveness but the knowledge of good and evil. (1) This reflective capacity is what initiates humanity's ...
Hegel's logic of actuality.(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... IT HAS BECOME COMMON in discussions of post-Kantian idealism to put forth the thesis that Hegel completes Kant, that Hegel completes the Kantian critical project by transforming transcendental idealism into absolute idealism. (1) Such readings generally tend to focus on the great ...
The role of teleology in the moral species.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... IT IS DIFFICULT TO AVOID THE CONCLUSION that teleology plays a central role in Aquinas' ethics. Even the new natural law theorists, such as Finnis and Grisez, who have eschewed teleology within ethics, opting instead for a kind of practical intuition of moral norms, have conceded a link ...
The Aristotelian commentaries of St. Thomas Aquinas.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... THE COMMENTARIES OF ST. THOMAS on a dozen major works of Aristotle invite us to study from close quarters Aquinas' position with regard to Aristotle's philosophy. These commentaries occupy more than 5000 pages in small print, the fruit of immense labor and much research. Thomas' method of ...