Transcendent Universals and Ontological Priority

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-200
Author(s):  
José Tomás Alvarado
Keyword(s):  
Ontological Priority

In the Beginning

Frege ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 9-30
Author(s):  
Charles Travis
Keyword(s):  
General Account ◽  
Ontological Priority ◽  
In The Beginning

This chapter presents a general account of the pure business of being true, otherwise put, of what is so of truths and falsehoods merely by virtue of their being that. It introduces Frege’s notion of a thought and of the thought’s logical and ontological priority, the idea that whole thoughts come first and are multiply decomposable, other items in the business of being true to be understood in terms of their role in such decompositions. It also discusses his idea of winnowing the psychological from the logical, and the distinction between generalities and particular cases.

Hartmann, Nicolai (1882–1950)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Inwood
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Physical Organic ◽  
Ontological Priority

Nicolai Hartmann’s intellectual trajectory was similar to that of his contemporary, Heidegger. He abandoned his early Neo-Kantian concern with knowledge and its foundations in favour of ‘ontology’, a study of the being of entities. Unlike Heidegger he assigned no ontological priority to human beings. Human beings are the highest level of entities, perched precariously above the physical, organic and animal levels, but conferring meaning and value on an otherwise meaningless and Godless universe.

In Praise of Unreliability

Hypatia ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 174-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Heldke
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Ontological Priority

Bisexuality challenges familiar assumptions about love, family, and sexual desire that are shared by both heterosexual and homosexual communities. In particular, it challenges the assumption that a person's desire can and should run in only one direction. Furthermore, bisexuality questions the legitimacy, rigidity, and presumed ontological priority of the categories “heterosexual” and “homosexual.” Bisexuals are often assumed to be dishonest and unreliable. I suggest that dishonesty and unreliability can be resources for undermining normative sexualities.

Idealism and Fine-Tuning

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Ross
Keyword(s):  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Explanatory Role ◽  
Similar Reasoning ◽  
Final Cause ◽  
Ontological Priority ◽  
Explanatory Priority ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Fundamental Physical

This chapter argues that, given certain background assumptions, a kind of idealism follows from a version of the fine-tuning thesis. The kind of idealism in question ascribes explanatory priority, not ontological priority, to the mental. The version of the fine-tuning thesis in question is the strong fine-tuning for consciousness thesis, according to which (i) the values of the fundamental physical parameters are fine-tuned for consciousness and (ii) this fine-tuning for consciousness is not the inevitable by-product of fine-tuning for something more basic than consciousness, such as life. The chapter argues that, assuming a particular account of the nature of explanation—namely, the unificationist account—the strong fine-tuning for consciousness thesis entails that consciousness plays a fundamental explanatory role in nature, and so this thesis entails explanatory idealism. The chapter concludes by arguing that similar reasoning leads to the conclusion that consciousness is the final cause of the universe.

Derrida, Jacques (1930–2004)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Cutrofello
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
Western Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Ontological Priority ◽  
Metaphysics Of Presence

Jacques Derrida is a prolific French philosopher born in Algeria. His work can be understood in terms of his argument that it is necessary to interrogate the Western philosophical tradition from the standpoint of ‘deconstruction’. As an attempt to approach that which remains unthought in this tradition, deconstruction is concerned with the category of the ‘wholly other’. Derrida has called into question the ‘metaphysics of presence’, a valuing of truth as self-identical immediacy which has been sustained by traditional attempts to demonstrate the ontological priority and superiority of speech over writing. Arguing that the distinction between speech and writing can be sustained only by way of a violent exclusion of otherness, Derrida has attempted to develop a radically different conception of language, one that would begin from the irreducibility of difference to identity and that would issue in a correspondingly different conception of ethical and political responsibility.

Paper & Place: The Poetry of Billy Mills

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Davis
Keyword(s):  
Seamus Heaney ◽  
Verbal Art ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Ontological Priority ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Nonlinear Form

This essay discusses the issue of place and its representation in the work of the contemporary Irish experimental poet, Billy Mills. It considers the ontological priority Mills's poetry and related critical work grant the object world, and the necessarily provisional quality of the ‘mapping’ of the environment in verbal art. Mills's ecopoetics are contrasted with the pastoral poetic tradition, as he construes it, with the poetry of Seamus Heaney, and with Language Writing. In conclusion, Mills's practice as a translator is shown to display an attentiveness to nonlinear form that, as a critic, he identifies in the work of contemporaries including Maurice Scully, Geoffrey Squires, and Catherine Walsh.

Christopher Seitz and the Priority of the Christ Event

Pro Ecclesia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-284
Author(s):  
Hans Boersma
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Ontological Priority

While Seitz’s The Elder Testament: Canon, Theology, Trinity shows some sympathy for historical-critical readings of the Old Testament, he rightly insists on a theological starting point: he maintains that the Old Testament itself provides providentially inserted clues that demand a Trinitarian reading, and so he maintains that the Old Testament itself “pressures forth” a Christian reading of the text. We should keep in mind, however, that it is only through the acknowledgement of the ontological priority of the Christ event (and of the church’s identity within the Christ event) that the Spirit enables us to recognize the hidden, deeper meanings of the text.

On the Ontological Priority of Physical Objects

Noûs ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 139 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. A. Brody
Keyword(s):  
Ontological Priority ◽  
Physical Objects
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