Classical notions of truth and objectivity have steadily eroded in the face of postmodernism. Meeting this challenge head-on, Joseph Bracken here reconstructs the metaphysical tradition of the West on solid new foundations. Drawing on the thought of Alfred North Whitehead, Ervin Laszlo, and Jürgen Habermas, Bracken presents a new philosophical perspective that roots the relationship between God and the world in community. Bracken first answers objections to the possibility of developing a new metaphysics in our postmodern age. He then lays out the "vertical" and "horizontal" dimensions of his new metaphysical scheme, a constructive perspective that results in a consciously communitarian understanding of the God-world relationship. The uniqueness of Bracken's position is its advocacy of a strictly "social ontology" in which the classical relationship of the One and the Many is reversed - not the transcendence of the One over the Many but its emergence out of the Many in dynamic relationship.
| Autorius: | Joseph A. Bracken |
| Leidėjas: | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2001 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 248 |
| ISBN-10: | 0802848923 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780802848925 |
| Formatas: | 229 x 152 x 15 mm. Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
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