A Metaphysics for the Future (Routledge Revivals)

Allinson, Robert

ISBN 10: 113873277X / ISBN 13: 9781138732773

Published by Routledge, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Metaphysics for the Future (Routledge Revivals)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113873277X
• ISBN 13: 9781138732773
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

This title was first published in 2001. This work is intended to serve not only as an expression of a new idea of a philosophy, but as an "apologia" for philosophy as a legitimate and independent discipline in its own right. It argues that in the 20th century, truth has not been abandoned, but merely modified. The text proposes a return to truth and suggests that it is only after apprehending the truths of consciousness that the philosopher's mirror may become a kaleidoscope through which reality may be contemplated. First order truth lies in the realm of discovery, and discovery takes place only within the moment of subjective re-enactment.

About the Author

Robert Elliott Allinson is Professor of Philosophy at Soka University of America, USA and former Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He has been invited to be Visiting Professor or Fellow at Peking University, Fudan University, Waseda University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Canterbury, Yale University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Copenhagen Business School, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. He has been a Professor of Philosophy in the Far East for several decades and this book contains information gathered first hand from Chinese sources. He has published poetry on adjoining pages with Nobel laureates Boris Pasternak and Odysseus Elytis and has won an Academy of Poet's Award judged by Octavio Paz.