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A transcendental analysis of the act of knowing asks the question as to what the structures of being are which make knowing possible. We must develop an ontology which is critically aware of the functioning of the transcendental imagination.
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Rahner, Spirit in the World, p. 59: “This need to question is the only point of departure for the metaphysical question that has its foundation in itself.”
Plato, Meno (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1949), p. 36.
Cf., Coreth, Metaphysics, pp. 53–64. However, I will not go as far as Coreth and call this preknowledge.
See J. P. Sartre, The Transcendence of the Ego (New York: Noonday Press, x957) especially pp. 38–39, for a development of the notion of intentionality.
Martin Heidegger, What is Called Thinking (New York: Harper and Row, 1968), P. 4.
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (New York: Harper and Row, 1962), p. 32.
Ibid., p. 34; Heidegger, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, pp. 244–247.
Martin Heidegger, Existence and Being (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1949), p. 310.
Alfred North Whitehead, Modes of Thought (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1958), p. VII.
Martin Heidegger, Holzwege (Frankfurt am Main, 1963), p. 7; What I have said parallels Heidegger’s discussion of the reciprocal relationship of the artist with his work.
Heidegger, What is Called Thinking, especially pp. 28–32.
Martin Heidegger, What Is Philosophy (New Haven, Conn.: College and University Press, 1956), p. 21.
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Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics, p. II; What is Called Thinking, p. 130.
Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics, p. 11.
Heidegger, What Is Philosophy, pp. 45–53.
Heidegger, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, pp. 134, 162.
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Winquist, C.E. (1972). Transcendental Ontology. In: The Transcendental Imagination: An Essay in Philosophical Theology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9558-4_3
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