From the nature of the mind to personal dignity the significance of Rosmini's philosophy - Franck, Juan F., 1973-; ebrary, Inc. (Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2006)
Rosmini's life and work -- Toward an ontological foundation of personhood -- The present study -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Objective being and Plato's Parmenides -- 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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-204) and indexes.
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Keywords: Rosmini, Antonio, -- 1797-1855.; Electronic books