Incarnation: the harmony of one love in the totality of reality

193 Pages·2017·5.265 MB·English

by  Schade, Martin J

Incarnation
The Harmony of One Love
in the Totality of Reality
Martin J. Schade
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Contents
Preface ix
Notes xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
TheDialecticandtheDialecticalMethod 2
Hegel’sDialectic 2
Marx’sDialectic 7
LoveandaPhilosophyofIncarnation 9
ThePhilosophyofDialecticalIncarnation 10
ANeedforaSynthesisandOutlineoftheBook 12
Notes 15
1 Ancient,Medieval,andModernPhilosophicalBackgroundto
DialecticalIncarnation 17
AncientDevelopment:Pre-SocraticsandHylozoism 17
MedievalPeriodandSubsequentPeriods 21
TheModernPeriod 28
Summary 36
Notes 37
2 TheFormingofDialecticalIncarnation:Cosmological,
MetaphysicalandAnthropologicalFoundations 41
PierreTeilharddeChardin:PreparingtheWay 41
CreationandEvolution 42
Entropy,Evil,Suffering,andDeath 48
BeyondTeilharddeChardintoKarlRahner 50
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vi Contents
TheDialecticalandIncarnationalPhilosophicalTheologyof
KarlRahner 51
Notes 61
3 PantheismandOtherExpressionsofDialecticalIncarnation 65
GodIsAllThings:UnderstandingPantheism 65
TheExpressionsofDialecticalIncarnationinEastern
Philosophy 72
The“I-n-I”:DialecticalIncarnationExpressedThrough
Rastafari 79
Notes 87
4 CurrentPerspectivesinDialecticalIncarnation 91
ThePastandthePresent:UnderstandingDialecticalIncarnation 91
AlfredNorthWhitehead:ProcessPhilosophy 96
GodandtheWorld 98
LogicalPositivismandDialecticalIncarnation 101
TheNewPhysics 106
Notes 109
5 Material-ExistentialInstantiationsofDialecticalIncarnation—
theSelf,EthicsandCulture 113
UnderstandingtheSelfwithinDialecticalIncarnation:TheSelf 113
UnderstandingtheSelfFromaPsychologicalPerspective 116
IdentityasEgoVersustheSelf 119
UnderstandingtheSelffromaPhilosophicalPerspective 121
TheEthicsofDialecticalIncarnation:AHarmonyofLove 124
TheBeginningofaHarmonyofLove:NicholasofCusaand
BaruchSpinozaRevisited 124
Leibniz’sHarmonyofLove 125
Kant’sTranscendentalSelfandtheConditionofthePossibility 126
TheAnthropologicalEthicsofDialecticalIncarnation 127
UnderstandingCultureinEstablishingUniversalEthics 131
TheNatureofNaturalLaw 132
HistoricalRootsofNaturalLaw 134
PhysicalismVersusPersonalism 135
ExistentialEthics 136
Intentionality 138
VirtueEthicsinDialecticalIncarnation 142
Conscience 148
ACulturalInstantiationofDialecticalIncarnation:Riddimof
Creation 149
RiddimofCreation:DialecticalIncarnationinMusicandCulture 149
APhilosophyandTheologyofCulture 151
PhilosophyandTheologyofSymbol 153
Contents vii
RiddimofCreation:ASymboloftheHoly 156
OriginalGracePrecedesOriginalSin 157
RiddimofCreation:AHarmonyofLove 158
Notes 158
Conclusion 165
Note 166
Bibliography 167