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CONTENTS


TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION ---//

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION ---{ i }


INTRODUCTION ---{11}

I. East and West ---{11}
II. What is metaphysics? ---{16}
III. Fundamentality of metaphysics ---{26}
IV. Problematic characteristic of metaphysical fundamentality ---{36}


CHAPTER 1

THE FIRST PHILOSOPHY OF ARISTOTLE ---{39}

§ 1. The philosophical search before Aristotle. Search for the ón. ---{41}

§ 2. Aporetic characteristic of this search ---{51}

§ 3. The Aristotelian search ---{53}
I. The Aristotelian idea of ón. The ón and the horizon of motion. ---{53}
II. First philosophy as a science being searched for ---{63}


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CHAPTER 2

WESTERN PHILOSOPHY (1)

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS ---{71}

Introduction. The horizon of nothingness. ---{71}

§ 1. The purification of Aristotelian concepts ---{79}
I. The idea of philosophy as metaphysics ---{79}
II. The object of metaphysics and the idea of entity ---{83}

§ 2. The vision of entity in St. Thomas ---{99}
I. The entification of the real. The horizon of nothingness and the
intrinsic finitude of created entity. ---{100}
II. The entification of God ---{105}

§ 3. The character of metaphysics ---{113}


CHAPTER 3

WESTERN PHILOSOPHY (2)

DESCARTES ---{123}

§ 1. The horizon of nothingness, uncertainty. ---{126}

§ 2. The stepping march of the problem ---{129}
I. Doubt and certainty ---{129}
II. Certainty and evidence ---{131}
III. Evidence and truth ---{136}
1. Truth as firmness ---{137}
2. Truth as manifestation ---{137}
3. Truth as transcendental ---{138}
4. Truth as transcendent ---{140}


CHAPTER 4

WESTERN PHILOSOPHY (3)

LEIBNIZ ---{151}

§ 1. The problem of Leibniz. The horizon of nothingness. Possibility. ---{151}


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§ 2. The stepping march of the problem ---{154}
I. Idea and possibility ---{154}
II. Possibility and reality ---{160}
III. Structure of the transcendental order ---{163}
1. Transcendentality as such ---{164}
2. The transcendental unity of the world. Optimism. ---{167}
3. The transcendental unity of entity. The monad. ---{169}
IV. Philosophy as science of the principles of reason ---{174}


CHAPTER 5

WESTERN PHILOSOPHY (4)

KANT ---{183}

§ 1. Introduction. The horizon of nothingness. Objectuality. ---{183}

§ 2. The problem of Kant ---{189}

§ 3. The stepping march of the problem ---{199}
I. The principle of transcendentality ---{199}
II. Constitution of the transcendental order ---{206}
1. Moment of objectuality. The categorial. ---{208}
2. Moment of data ---{211}
A) Empirical data. Synthesis of the categorial and the phenomenal. ---{213}
B) Moral data ---{224}
a) Its absolute characteristic. Transcendental freedom and person. ---{225}
b) Its own intelligibility ---{232}


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III. The unity of Kantian metaphysics ---{238}
1. By its way of conceptiveness ---{239}
2. By its object ---{240}
3. By its principle ---{244}


CHAPTER 6

WESTERN PHILOSOPHY (5)

HEGEL ---{247}

§ 1. The problem of Hegel. Horizon of nothingness.
The absolute and reason ---{248}

§ 2. The stepping march of the problem ---{251}
I. The discovery of reason. From conscience to absolute knowing. ---{251}
II. The internal structure of reason ---{269}
1. Formal characteristics of reason ---{274}
A) Living unity ---{275}
B) Logicality ---{276}
C) Motion ---{278}
D) Dialectic ---{281}
2. Processable characteristic of reason. From being to idea. ---{290}
III. The realization of reason ---{296}
1. Reason as thinking activity. Reason and creation. ---{296}
2. The stages of thinking activity ---{300}
A) Reason realized “outside of itself”. Nature. ---{301}
B) Reason “returning to itself”. Spirit (from finite spirit
to absolute spirit). ---{306}


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CONCLUSION

THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM.
THE PROBLEM OF INTELLIGENCE. ---{321}

§ 1. Intelligence as problem ---{322}
I. Ratio, intellectus concipiens, noûs. ---{324}
II. Sensibility ---{328}

§ 2. The idea of sentient intelligence ---{329}
I. Sensing and that which is given in sensing ---{329}
II. The formal characteristic of intellection ---{333}
III. Sentient intelligence ---{334}
1. Its essential structure ---{335}
2. Intelligence and reason ---{343}
IV. Transcendental reason and the problem of metaphysics ---{344}


INDEX ---{347}

CONTENTS ---{435}