The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World by Ca... - 9781441195951

The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-WorldA Confrontation Between St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger\nAuthor(s): Caitlin Smith Gilson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation, United States\nImprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation\nISBN-13: 9781441195951, 978-1441195951\nSynopsis\nThe Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World brings St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger into dialogue and argues for the necessity of Christian philosophy. Through the confrontation of Heideggerian and Thomist thought, it offers an original and comprehensive rethinking of the nature of temporality and the origins of metaphysical inquiry. The book is a careful treatment of the inception and deterioration of the four-fold presuppositions of Thomistic metaphysics: intentionality, causality, finitude, ananke stenai. The analysis of the four-fold has never before been done and it is a central and original contribution of Gilson's book. The four-fold penetr.