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New Research on the Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann 9783110434378, 9783110441024
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Table of Contents
Part One: Philosophy of Nature and Ontology
Chapter 1 Pure and Qualified Time
Chapter 2 Hartmann on Spacetime and Geometry
Chapter 3 Nicolai Hartmann’s Concept of Causality
Chapter 4 “The Role of the Missing Reason”: The Search for a Stratum-Specific Form of Determination in Nicolai Hartmann’s Theory of Life
Chapter 5 From Linearity to Co-Evolution: On the Architecture of Nicolai Hartmann’s Levels of Reality
Chapter 6 Flat, Hierarchical, or Stratified? Determination and Dependence in Social-Natural Ontology
Part Two: Hartmann and Others
Chapter 7 The Discovery of A Priori Knowledge: Hartmann’s Interpretation of Plato’s Theory of Recollection
Chapter 8 The Being of Becoming in Pre-socratic Philosophy
Chapter 9 Beings in the World: Elements for a Comparison between Nicolai Hartmann and Roman Ingarden
Chapter 10 The Place of Nicolai Hartmann’s Ontology in Konrad Lorenz’s Epistemology
Part Three: Individual and Objective Spirit
Chapter 11 Investigating Affectivity in light of Hartmann’s Layered Structure of Reality
Chapter 12 From Value Being to Human Being: The Ways of Nicolai Hartmann’s Anthropology
Chapter 13 Nicolai Hartmann and Natural Law
C The Idea of Levels of Reality and its Relevance for Non-Reduction and Personhood