title: Authentic Metaphysics in an Age of Unreality: Second Edition, Second Printing
author: Leo S.J. Sweeney
description: The role of the existential dimension in metaphysics still calls for penetrating study. In its new extension towards 'an epistemology which is not a re-presentationalism', Fr. Sweeney's project augurs a coming to grips with the central issue at stake, especially in its fifth and tenth chapters.(J. Owens, C.Ss.R., Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto)<BR> The first edition of this book first got me interested in and led me to fall in love with philosophy, and I have appreciated that very much through the years. It is a textbook written by an excellent scholar and an excellent teacher - a combination that makes the book both profound and approachable. (Roland J. Teske, S.J., Marquette University)<BR> A textbook of rare scholarly merit... It is a systematic philosophical exposition of Thomistic or Gilsonian extentialism...The key doctrines of the primacy of existence over essence...the four causes, the categories, analogy, the transcendentals, etc...are all here expounded with force and clarity and defended cogently. (Henry Veatch, Georgetwon University)
zlib_text: Tyler Tritten
  Beyond Presence
  
  Quellen und Studien
  zur Philosophie
  Herausgegeben von
  Jens Halfwassen, Dominik Perler,
  Michael Quante
  Band 111
  De Gruyter
  
  Beyond Presence
  The Late F. W. J. Schelling’s Criticism
  of Metaphysics
  by
  Tyler Tritten
  De Gruyter
  
  ISBN 978-1-61451-211-0
  e-ISBN 978-1-61451-155-7
  ISSN 0344-8142
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  Acknowledgements
  For someone to whom everything came easily, at least everything I
  thought worthwhile, this work is the first of what I hope wi