From the Nature of the Mind to Personal Dignity: The Significance of Rosmini's Philosophy

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Contents Introduction / Rosmini’s Life and Work / Toward an Ontological Foundation of Personhood / The Present Study /  . Epistemological Foundations . The Nature of Knowledge / The Problem of Knowledge / Fundamental Difference between Sensation and Idea / Activity and Passivity in Sense Perception / The Subjective and the Extrasubjective in Sensation / Sensation and Idea Compared / . Analysis of the Idea of the Thing: The Intellective Perception / The Judgment Contained in the Idea of the Thing / The Idea of Existence / Characteristics of This Idea / Innatism of the Idea of Existence / The Idea and Sensation Are Primitive Elements / The Idea as a Necessary Means of Knowledge /  . Ontological Significance of the Idea . Ideas and Reality / The Idea of Being, Pure Mediator of Knowledge / The Knowledge of Existing Reality through the Idea / Kant’s A Priori Synthesis and Rosmini’s Primitive Synthesis / Kant, Innatism, and the lumen intellectuale / The Idea Is One Form of Being / Ideal Being Is the Knowability of Real Being / Ideal Being Is the Possibility of Things / Note on the Possibility and Necessity of Ideas / . The Idea and the Mind / The Book about the Idea in the Teosofia / Essere per sè manifesto: Manifestato and manifestante / Objective Mode (or Form) of Being: Absolute and Relative Existence / Absolute and Relative Existence of Ideas and Ideal Being / Intelligibility Is an Attribute of Being Itself / The Intimate Bond between the Idea and the Intelligence / Note I: Objective Being and Plato’s Parmenides / Note II: Self-contradictory Objects / . The Idea and the Dignity of the Person / Initial Being and the Place of Intelligences in the Whole of Being / Initial Being and the lumen intellectuale / The Divine in Nature / Individuality and Immortality / The Intelligent Will / Objective Being and Ethics / The Ultimate Root of Personal Dignity / Conclusion / Appendix: Rosmini’s Own Account of the Problem of Knowledge / The Importance of the Criticism of Reid / Bibliography / Index of Authors/ Index of Subjects/ vi ⁄ Contents ...