Ontological Analysis: The Classical Model (Lecture Note in Computer Science;1024) - Tapa dura

Ontological Analysis provides a penetrating and learned account of the principal issues of ontology. Bar-On writes with great clarity and precision. -- Berel Lang, professor emeritus of philosophy, State University of New York at Albany ...clearly written, demarcates the ontological regions and provides an excellent historical introduction into the main problems of the quarrell about reality...The best introduction into one of the basic philosophical branches. -- Rudolf Haller, University of Graz Heinrichstr ...clearly written, demarcates the ontological regions and provides an excellent historical introduction into the main problems of the quarrell about reality...The best introduction into one of the basic philosophical branches. -- Rudolf Haller, University of Graz Heinrichstr Ontological Analysis provides a penetrating and learned account of the principal issues of ontology. Bar-On writes with great clarity and precision. -- Berel Lang, professor emeritus of philosophy, State University of New York at Albany

This book teaches ontology by analyzing and interpreting the major ontological problems which have existed throughout history and which still engage thinkers and scholars today. The author takes us through many studies, including: the totality of Being of Parmenides and the principle of the oneness of being, thought, and language; the debate between idealism and materialism; the ontological status of the "I" and the Cogito principle; and the antinomy of necessity and freedom. Graduate and undergraduate students of philosophy will benefit from Bar-On's inquiries classical texts and into modern interpretations of these "classics." Seminars on ontology and metaphysics will profit from Bar-On's probing of timeless perplexities which continue to find their way into modern day discussions.