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Tao and Trinity treats the Trinity as a philosophical notion coming to birth in Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Plato. All three attempt to treat the idea of an absolute source or unity of all things, and are driven in the direction of a first principle which is an instance of itself, an identity and a contradiction at once. The Trinity later on in Aquinas is also such a principle, one characteristically Western, with consequences for art and metaphor, image and symbol, comedy, tragedy, and religion. The consideration of Aquinas forces a rewriting of the history of Western philosophy from Parmenides to Heidegger, Whitehead, and Derrida. The Tao is an Eastern version of such a principle - less dependent on dialectic, reason, logic, hierarchy, and more on nature, mysticism, and transcendence.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Tao and Trinity: Notes on Self-Reference and the Unity of Opposites in Philosophy
• Author: Scott Austin
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 130
• EAN: 9781137501585
• ISBN: 1137501588
• ID: 08877797
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 322 g
• Dimensions: 223 × 145 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. November 2014

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