[Excerpt presenting the “Contents” from Sobre el hombre (On Man), Xavier Zubiri, Madrid, 1986, pp. 705-709]


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Contents

Translator’s Introduction -----{//}

Editor’s introduction -----{ix}


FIRST PART. THE STRUCTURE OF HUMAN REALITY -----{9}

Chapter 1. Human actions -----{11}

Chapter 2. The habitudes -----{19}
A. The animal confrontation with things -----{20}
B. The human confrontation with things -----{22}
---a) What is reality? -----{22}
---b) Intelligence as habitude -----{27}
------1. The radical act of intellection -----{27}
------2. Sentient intelligence -----{31}
---c) Tendent will and affecting sentiment -----{37}

Chapter 3. Constitutive structures of man -----{43}
A. Reality, system of notes -----{43}
---a) Things are constituted by “notes” -----{43}
---b) Each note, therefore, is “note-of” -----{44}
---c) The notes of a system can have different characteristics -----{46}
B. The substantive reality of man -----{47}
C. Material characteristic of human reality -----{51}
---a) Living beings -----{51}
---b) The living human -----{57}
---c) Structural moments of the psycho-organic system -----{60}

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D. Open characteristic of human reality -----{65}
---a) Man, open substantivity -----{68}
---b) The structural characteristic of human openness -----{72}
------1. Open substantivity and the unity of its action -----{72}
------2. The structural diversity of open actions -----{76}
------3. Structure of the openness of human substantivity -----{87}

Chapter 4. The person as form of reality: personeity -----{103}
A. General presentation of the problem -----{103}
B. The person, a reality formally its own -----{110}
---a) To be reduplicatively of my own -----{110}
---b) Consistency and subsistence -----{112}
---c) Actualization of personal reality: me, my, I -----{123}
---d) Personality as modulation of personeity -----{127}

Chapter 5. Personality as a way of being -----{129}
A. Human personality and its constitution -----{131}
---a) Human personality -----{131}
---b) The constitution of personality -----{137}
------1. In what does willing consist? -----{142}
------2. What is that which is willed? -----{143}
------3. The way of willing -----{144}
------4. The incorporation of what is willed -----{149}
B. The concrete I as the being of substantive
------reality. Its internal structure -----{152}
---a) The formal structure of the I as the being
------of substantive reality -----{153}
------1. The way of being insofar as a way of being -----{153}

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------2. The I as a way of being -----{159}
---------2.1. The I as supreme way of the human being -----{160}
---------2.2. Modal aperture to the absolute and the unity of the human being -----{169}
---b) Structural dimensions of the I -----{187}
------1. Individual dimension -----{189}
------2. Social dimension -----{193}
------3. Historical dimension -----{199}
------4. Dimensions as functional structural moments -----{213}

Chapter 6. Man, social reality -----{223}
A. Presentation of the problem -----{223}
B. The fundament of the turning towards others -----{233}
C. The constitution of publicness -----{240}
D. The human condition of things and the structure of otherness -----{241}
E. The structure of coexistence -----{244}
---a) the radical event of coexsistence -----{246}
---b) The formal characteristic of the linkage -----{255}
---c) The structure of the social nexus -----{260}
F. Coexistence and expression -----{275}
---a) Expression insofar as expression -----{275}
---b) Expression and sign -----{282}
---c) Expression, sign and meaning -----{287}
---d) Meaning insofar as expression -----{296}
G. The way to live in coexistence with others -----{302}
---a) Fundamenting characteristic of the habitude of otherness -----{302}
---b) Burdening characteristic of the social -----{311}
---c) The impersonal pronoun “-self” -----{319}
H. Technique and human life -----{323}
---a) The things with which man makes his life -----{324}
---b) The problem with techniques -----{331}

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Chapter 7. Man, moral reality -----{343}
A. Justification for the moral acts -----{345}
---a) The fact of justification -----{345}
---b) What is justification -----{345}
---c) What do we justify -----{359}
B.. Moral reality -----{361}
---a) The moral reality of man -----{365}
------1. Formal structure of volition -----{369}
------2. Formal structure of ends and means -----{372}
------3. Unity of the act of volition and moral reality -----{373}
---b) The problem of the moral good -----{380}
------1. Characteristic of the attained reality, the good -----{380}
------2. Characteristic of the man appropriating possibilities, happiness -----{385}
------3. The moral difference -----{395}
---c) Determination of the particular good within the good, duty -----{400}
---d) Concrete form of morality -----{420}


SECOND PART. GENETIC CONSTITUTION OF HUMAN REALITY
AND ITS VITAL COURSE -----{441}

Chapter 8. Genesis of human reality -----{445}
A. Matter -----{445}
B. Human genesis -----{455}
---a) Characteristic of human substantivity -----{455}
---b) The psychic notes -----{457}
---c) The very human genesis -----{461}

Chapter 9. Constitution of human reality -----{477}
A. Personal activity -----{477}
B. The activity of human substantivity and the problem of its genesis -----{481}

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C. The levels of psycho-organic activity -----{494}
---a) Genetic development -----{495}
---b) Structuring development -----{506}
D. Brain activity and optional intellective activity -----{521}
---a) Brain activity and intellective activity -----{521}
---b) Brain activity and optional activity -----{533}

Chapter 10. The vital course of life -----{545}
A. Human living -----{545}
B. Structure of human living -----{554}
---a) Birth -----{554}
---b) The vital course of life itself -----{563}
------1. Initiation of the course of life -----{563}
---------1.1. Structure of life that leads to the human reality in the world -----{563}
---------1.2. Opening to the world -----{568}
------2. Life and its course -----{577}
---------2.1. The progressive and argumented characteristic of life -----{578}
---------2.2. The structure of the continuing argumentation of life -----{584}
------------2.2.1. Structure of the vital course of life, liberty and projects -----{593}
------------2.2.2. Free characteristic of the vital course of life -----{593}
------------2.2.3. Planning characteristic of the course of life -----{607}
---------2.3. Realization of life -----{631}
------------2.3.1. Man in situation -----{634}
------------2.3.2. What man in situation projects to do -----{644}
------3. Death -----{657}
---------3.1. The structure of emplacement -----{660}
------------3.1.1. What it is to continue living -----{661}
------------3.1.2. The characteristic of “while” -----{664}
------------3.1.3. The internal unity of life -----{665}
---------3.2. The living relationship to death -----{668}
---------3.3. The real and physical death -----{669}

Chapter 11. Conclusion -----{673}

Index -----{677}

Contents -----{705}