Metaphysical Knowledge

Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 5 May 2011

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Metaphysics
Cover of the book Metaphysical Knowledge by Claudine Tiercelin, Collège de France
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Author: Claudine Tiercelin ISBN: 9782722602304
Publisher: Collège de France Publication: May 23, 2013
Imprint: Collège de France Language: English
Author: Claudine Tiercelin
ISBN: 9782722602304
Publisher: Collège de France
Publication: May 23, 2013
Imprint: Collège de France
Language: English

Metaphysics has been proclaimed to be archaic or outdated. Actually, it never “died”. It has even experienced considerable revival throughout the world, which in France we have yet to fully appreciate. Because, in both the most general and the most precise ways, it questions “what there is”, it is essential to any knowledge-related undertaking, in the sense not of a recognition of eternal truths but of an enquiry on the world and on reality. In this lecture Claudine Tiercelin sets out the programme of a scientific and realist metaphysics rooted in the rationalist tradition and diametrically opposed to obscurantist spiritualism and post-modern relativism.

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Metaphysics has been proclaimed to be archaic or outdated. Actually, it never “died”. It has even experienced considerable revival throughout the world, which in France we have yet to fully appreciate. Because, in both the most general and the most precise ways, it questions “what there is”, it is essential to any knowledge-related undertaking, in the sense not of a recognition of eternal truths but of an enquiry on the world and on reality. In this lecture Claudine Tiercelin sets out the programme of a scientific and realist metaphysics rooted in the rationalist tradition and diametrically opposed to obscurantist spiritualism and post-modern relativism.

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