Tag Archives: being

Introducing William Desmond

Posted on 19 June 2018 by

by Christopher Ben Simpson, Ph.D. Metaphysics and the Fourfold Sense of Being  Metaphysics Metaphysics asks the question of being: the meaning of being—the significance of the “to be” (BB 3). Metaphysics also asks the ultimate “why” of being: why being … Continue reading →

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Dionysian Ponderings: Transcendence and the Plotinian One

Posted on 30 May 2018 by

I come to my reading of the Corpus Areopagaticum with a specific understanding of divine transcendence, an understanding which I will be testing along the way. We might put it this way: God infinitely surpasses all creaturely distinctions and dualities—transcendence … Continue reading →

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The Nought of Sin and the Blindness of God

Posted on 9 November 2017 by

“Sinne is no dede,” Julian of Norwich calmly states (LT 11), yet who would be so insensitive and cruel to tell that to the families who lost loved ones in last week’s massacre in Sutherland Springs, Texas. When Devin Kelly … Continue reading →

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Existing is more than Existence

Posted on 6 February 2017 by

The problem of the one and the many, writes Norris Clarke, “is the ultimate paradox of being and the deepest and the most fundamental problem of all metaphysics, of every intellectual effort to achieve a total, unified vision of all … Continue reading →

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The Diffusiveness of Being

Posted on 1 February 2017 by

Norris Clarke writes: “It is proper to every being, insofar as it is in act, to overflow into action, to act according to its nature, whether such action be free or necessitated in its modality” (Explorations in Metaphysics, p. 46). … Continue reading →

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Is God Living Up to His Potential?

Posted on 6 December 2016 by

by Robert F. Fortuin A few posts back in the comment section, Dr Alan Rhoda raised a very good concern and question: “The central problem I am concerned with is to understand how God relates to the specificity of creation, … Continue reading →

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Ipsum Esse Subsistens: The God Who is Verb

Posted on 2 October 2016 by

Five ways, five philosophical proofs for the existence of God. Yet one might wonder whether the Angelic Doctor has demonstrated the existence of a single ultimate being. Perhaps the unmoved mover of the first way is a different being than … Continue reading →

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