The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World A Confrontation Between St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger

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The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World brings St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger into dialogue and argues for the necessity of Christian philosophy. Through the confrontation of Heideggeria

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
The Fourfold Historical Origin of Metaphysics	p. 1
How the Deity Entered Philosophy	p. 1
The Return to the Origin	p. 1
Aletheia as the Critical Indicator of Man's End	p. 3
An Epistemological Digression/Discursus	p. 5
Veritas as the "Aletheia" that Corresponds to Finitude	p. 8
The Formation of the "Same Is for Thinking as for Being"	p. 10
The Parmenidean Origin qua End as the Ananke Stenai	p. 12
Intentionality and Its Onto-Theo-Logic Directedness in the Poem of Parmenides	p. 13
Parmenidean Origin versus Heideggerian Ereignis	p. 16
Plato's Parmenides	p. 18
Why the Parmenides?	p. 18
The First Infinite Regress	p. 22
A Brief Move toward, and Rejection of Idealism	p. 23
The Argument and Its Movements Understood through the Fourfold Intentional Presupposition	p. 27
The "Instants": The Move to the Ground of Being	p. 31
The "Heaps": In Anticipation of Phenomenology	p. 38
Aristotle's De Anima	p. 42
Aristotle's Critique of Earlier First Principles	p. 43
Touch as Being-in-the-World	p. 56
St. Thomas Aquinas and Classical Intentionality	p. 61
The Luminosity of Consciousness: Abstraction	p. 66
The Exteriority of Consciousness: Self-knowledge	p. 74
The Meaning of Self-transcendence	p. 78
The Fourfold Reversals: The Displacement of Being-in-the-World	p. 83
Brief Discursus on Heidegger's Husserlian Influence	p. 84
The Phenomenological Ego: The Man Who Would Be King	p. 85
The Reduction: What Is It and Why Is It?	p. 88
Conclusion of the Discursus	p. 94
Heidegger's Commentary on the Critique of Pure Reason: Abyssus Abyssum Invocat	p. 94
Nothing or "No-thing"?	p. 98
Antimetaphysical Ontology and the Loss of the Intentional Presence	p. 100
Ananke Stenai and the No-thing: A Response to the Self-caused Cause?	p. 102
Two Opposite Approaches to Finitude: Heidegger and St. Thomas Aquinas	p. 106
Finitude: Nullity or No-thing?	p. 109
The "Catch-up" of Thinking into Being	p. 111
"Thereness" as Dasein's Beinghood	p. 114
"Thereness" and the Endlessness of Dasein	p. 118
Intentional Presence: The Meaning of Formational Being-in-the-World	p. 121
St. Thomas' Prima Via: A Brief Discursus on the Ananke Stenai	p. 127
Uncaused Cause versus Self-caused Cause	p. 131
The Fourfold Intensities	p. 139
The Necessity of the Causal Structure	p. 142
Causality versus Sufficient Reason	p. 143
Beyond Causality as Sufficient Reason	p. 147
Causality and Christian Philosophy	p. 152
The Wait and Christian Philosophy	p. 156
Intentional Presence qua Finitude	p. 158
Summation of Finitude: Revisiting the Wait	p. 163
The Aeviternal Structure of the Intentional Presence	p. 167
Conclusion: The Plenitude of the Ananke Stenai	p. 172
Epilogue: The Metaphysics of Tragedy	p. 176
The Elusive Tragic Essence	p. 176
The Tragic Wager	p. 178
The Act of Knowledge within the Tragic	p. 179
The Tragic Wait	p. 182
Christianity and the Tragic Choice	p. 184
Hope: The Horizon of the Transcendent and the Tragic	p. 185
Notes	p. 191
Bibliography	p. 205
Index	p. 213
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