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The myth of the metaphysical circle: an analysis of the contemporary crisis of the critique of metaphysics University of Antwerp
The temptations of metaphysics : epistemological and metaphysical dimensions of Mou Zongsan's Critique of the cognitive mind Ghent University
Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna's Metaphysics of the Healing: On the Function of the Fundamental Scientific First Principles of Metaphysics KU Leuven
This thesis is concerned with answering the question, what is the central argument of Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing that brings its opening ontological approach to the subject of first philosophy to its ultimate theological goal and conclusion? This dissertation contends that it is the function of the fundamental scientific first principles of metaphysics, and in particular the fundamental primary notion necessary (wājib), to provide the ...
The Metaphysics of the 'Divided Line' in Proclus. A Sample of Pythagorean Theology KU Leuven
The aim of this paper is to expose Proclus, a fifth-century Athenian Platonist, as a key figure in a tradition of interpretation that exploited Plato’s divided line as evidence for the attribution of a doctrine of mathematical intermediaries to Plato. I will claim that to fully appreciate the rationale behind Proclus’s exegesis of the passage, it is necessary to read it against the backdrop of his Neoplatonic metaphysics— especially his views on ...