Metaphysics or Ontology?

Foreword
 Robert Delfino
Preface

Introduction

Part 1: On the Origin of Metaphysics
1 From Sophía to Philosophía
2 From Philosophy (φιλοσοφία) to Meta-physics (τὰ μeτà τὰ φυσικά)
3 From ta metá ta physiká to Metaphysics
  Commentaries: The Assimilation and Continuity of Culture
4 The Autonomy of Metaphysics
5 Ontology in the Middle Ages?
Part 1 Summary

Part 2: The Rise of Ontology
6 Descartes and Malebranche—The Return of Augustinianism
7 British Philosophy: The Marginalization of Metaphysics
8 The Founders of Ontology: From Lorhard to Clauberg
9 Ontology before Metaphysics: From Wolff to Kant
10 Logic as Ontology: Hegel
11 The Apotheosis of Mathematics: Bolzano, Frege, and Meinong
12 Phenomenology apart from Metaphysics: Husserl, Ingarden, Heidegger
13 Metaphysics as Ontology: Nicolai Hartmann
14 Analytic Philosophy: A Metaphysics of Conceptual Schemata
15 Metaphysics or Ontology of Process?
16 Negative Ontology: Adorno
17 Postmoderism: The End of Metaphysics, or the End of Ontology?
Part 2 Summary

Part 3: Metaphysics or Ontology: Disputed Questions
18 Being or the Concept of Being?/b>
  The Term ‘Being’ and Its Meaning
  Being and the Apprehension of Being

19 Real Being or Possible Being?
  On the Principle of Identity and Non-Contradiction
  Possibility, Potency, and Real Essence: Aristotle
  Toward Possible Essence
  The Concept of Being and Possible Being: From Duns Scotus to Suárez
  Possible Being and Theology

20 Existence: Act or Modus?
  Existence: Etymology of the Term
  Did Aristotle Know the Difference between Essence and Existence?
  What Did Al-Farabi Discover?
  Existence as the Act of Being—Thomas Aquinas
  Existence is a Mode of Essence—Duns Scotus
  Suárez, the Heir of Scotus
  The Logical Transformation of Existence: Wolff

21 Essence Instead of Being
  The Etymology of the Word ‘Essence’
  Essence in Itself—Al Farabi and Avicenna
  Essence Reinstated to Reality—Thomas Aquinas
  Essence apart from Reality—Duns Scotus
  Essence according to Suárez: The Return to Duns Scotus
  Essence that is Real because It is Possible: Clauberg and Wolff
  Kant: Separation from Essence
  Hegel: The Absolutization of Essence
  Essence in Phenomenology
  Heidegger—Illusory Critique of Essence

22 Ontology: Unreal Reality

23 Ontology and the Object
  Object: Etymology and Terminology
  The Object and the Knowledge of Being in Metaphysics
  The Object Instead of Being: Ontology
  Kant—The Creation of the Object
  Hegel—Objectivism without Realism
  Meinong: The Theory of the Object Instead of Ontology

24 Intentionality: Outside of Reality
  Intentionality: The Etymology of the Word
  The Theological Context
  The Philosophical Context

25 Ontology and the Subject
  Subject: Etymology of the Word
  The Subject in Metaphysics
  From Descartes to Leibniz
  Kant—Creator of the Philosophy of the Subject

26 Ontology and System
  System: Etymology and Pre-Philosophical Meaning
  System in Ancient Philosophy
  System as Organized Knowledge
  A System that Makes Reality: Hegel and Schelling
  Whether Suárez was the Author of the First System of Metaphysics, and if so, in What Sense
  What Sort of Realistic Metaphysics?
  Critique of Philosophy as a System—But What Sort of System?
  Ontology and Logical Systems

27 Univocity or Analogy?

28 Metaphysics, Ontology, Onto-Theology?

Part 3 Summary

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects