Book Review: Metaphysical Perspectives

Filozofia i Nauka, 2018

The article discusses Nicholas Rescher’s metaphilosophical view of orientational pluralism. In his essay Philosophical Disagreement: An Essay towards Orientational Pluralism in Metaphilosophy Rescher explains a substantial difference between philosophy and science—namely, that philosophers—differently than scientists—continuously propose and undermine various solutions to the same old problems. In philosophy it is difficult to find any consensus or convergence of theories. According to Rescher, this pluralism of theoretical positions is caused by holding by philosophers different sets and hierarchies of cognitive values, i.e. methodological orientations. These orientations are chosen in virtue of some practical postulates, they are of axiological, normative, but not strictly theoretical character. Different methodological orientations yield different evaluations of philosophical theses and arguments.

I work through, sentences by sentence, of 2 reviews of Rescher's book and the first chapter of the book.

Ignaziana - rivista di ricerca teologica, 2019

The purpose of this paper is to make a comparative analysis of the understanding of Saint Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises in two great theologians who influenced the period after Vatican Council II in the twentieth century, Karl Rahner (1904-1984) and Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988). This analysis aims to identify the image of God as it appears in their respective theological projects, that employing the inductive method, in Rahner's theological anthropology, and that employing the deductive method, in Balthasar's theological aesthetics, and to identify how such images of God are involved in contemplative practice according to their respective theological understandings, both trying to adapt the Ignatian experience to the contemporary person, each theologian in his own way. Therefore, this study intends to analyze how the author´s understanding of the Spiritual Exercises is presented within each theological project and then to identify the similarities and differences between them. Such analysis intends to recognize how these two theologians of great scope understood spirituality first as a part of human existence and, in this context, how they understood the knowledge of God as the revelation of meaning and the source of new understanding in the search for an authentic life, even given their distinct accents both existential and on the Christian mystical tradition.

The Heythrop Journal, 2014

Routledge eBooks, 2005

Dialogue, 1986

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 2007

Traditionally, the one and the many have been held in opposition, at least since Parmenides elevated the unity of essence over the multiplicity of appearance. Variations of this duality between unity and diversity are recurrent in the history of philosophy and theology  the universal and the particular, the intelligible and the sensible, the substantial and the accidental, the cosmic and the psychic, the first cause and secondary effects, the collective and the individual, the realm of transcendence and that of immanence. The opposition of the one and the many seems perennial and perhaps even indelible. Thus to oppose them is to claim that they represent contrary principles and that as such they are incompatible. The problem of how to relate them in ways which do not threaten or cancel out the multiplicity of the many and the unity of the one appears irresolvable.

2002

With this issue we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the rst publication of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies, rst launched in March 1993. Our original plan was to produce two high-quality issues a year containing articles in all areas of philosophy, but aiming especially to contribute to the ongoing dialogue between analytic and Continental philosophy. Because of the overwhelming number and quality of submissions received, and the positive reaction of the readership, in 1997 the journal moved to three issues a year. Last year, 2001, the IJPS again expanded -this time to full quarterly publication.

Philosophical Theologies in South Africa: Genealogies, Traditions, and Speculations, 2024