Ontology: Laying the Foundations / / Nicolai Hartmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Hartmann, Nicolai,
• MitwirkendeR: Hartmann, Nicolai,
• TeilnehmendeR: Peterson, Keith.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XLIII, 332 p.)

It is no exaggeration to say that of the early 20th century German philosophers who claimed to establish a new ontology, former neo-Kantian turned realist Nicolai Hartmann is the only one to have actually followed through. "Ontology: Laying the Foundations" deals with "what is insofar as it is," and its four parts tackle traditional ontological assumptions and prejudices and traditional categories such as substance, thing, individual, whole, object, and phenomenon; a novel redefinition of existence and essence in terms of the ontological factors Dasein and Sosein and their interrelations; an analysis of modes of "givenness" and the ontological embeddedness of cognition in affective transcendent acts; and a discussion of the status of ideal being, including mathematical being, phenomenological essences, logical laws, values, and the interconnections between the ideal and real spheres. Hartmann’s work offers rich resources for those interested in overcoming the human-centeredness of much 20th century philosophy. Hartmann’s work offers rich resources for those interested in overcoming the human-centeredness of much 20th century philosophy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Translator’s Introduction: Hartmann’s Realist Ontology -- Translator’s Note -- Preface -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction -- Part One: On What Is as Such -- Section I: The Concept of What Is and Its Associated Aporias -- Section II: Traditional Conceptions of Being -- Section III: Determinations of What Is Based on Modes of Being -- Part Two: The Relation between Dasein and Sosein -- Section I: The Aporetics of “That” and “What” -- Section II: Ontically Positive Relation between Dasein and Sosein -- Section III: The Inner Relation between Ontological Factors -- Part Three: The Givenness of Real Being -- Section I: Cognition and its Object -- Section II: Transcendent Affective Acts -- Section III: Real Life and Cognition of Reality -- Part Four: The Problem and Status of Ideal Being -- Section I: The Givenness of Mathematical Being -- Section II: The Interconnection of Ideal and Real Being -- Section III: Ideal Being in the Real