The Effable and the Ineffable : : The Linguistic Boundaries of Metaphysical Realism /

The Effable and the Ineffable : : The Linguistic Boundaries of Metaphysical Realism / / Christos Yannaras, Andreas Andreopoulos.

'What is the criterion of truth?', asks Christos Yannaras in The Effable and The Ineffable: The Linguistic Boundaries of Metaphysical Realism. Christos Yannaras is a Greek philosopher, Eastern Orthodox theologian and author of more than fifty books which have been translated into many lang...

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Yannaras, Christos,
Andreopoulos, Andreas,
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Andreopoulos, Andreas,
Place / Publishing House:[Place of publication not identified] : : Winchester University Press,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • The Editor's Introduction ix
  • The Translator's Note xv
  • The Author's Preface xxi
  • 1. The Role of Language in Real and Illusory Experience 1
  • 2. Intellectual Idols: Confusing Signifiers and Signifieds 7
  • 3. Relationships: Experience and Symbolism 10
  • 4. Linguistic Meaning as a 'Passage to The Prototype' 18
  • 5. The realism of consistent apophaticism 25
  • 6. Created and uncreated-logos and person 30
  • 7. The call of Logos and relationships possessing logos 36
  • 8. Revelation: experience and language 40
  • 9. Natural Ontology and relational ontology 54
  • 10. The distinctiveness of the human being 66
  • 11. The 'logical' implications of signifying what lies beyond: Part A 70
  • 12.The 'logical' implications of signifying what lies beyond: Part B 78
  • 13. A Relation-centred knowledge of physics and metaphysics 85
  • 14. The difficulty of delineating a metaphysical ontology 101
  • 15. The metaphysical locus of the logos-possessing subject 108
  • 16. The existential potential of the personal hypostasis 115
  • 17. Freedom is also the cause of nothingness 123
  • 18. What is signified by 'future judgment' 130
  • 19. The ontological meaning of grace 136
  • 20. Proofs, feelings and symbols 145
  • 21. The legal jurisdiction of metaphysics 154
  • 22. Sexuality and its eschatological consequences 162
  • 23. Freedom and the theory of evolution 170
  • 24. Neurotic Metaphysics 181
  • Bibliography 191
  • Index.

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