God and Subjectivity

By Gerald J. Galgan

God and Subjectivity is an essentially metaphysical monograph, but one that is cast in an historical mode: it reports on first philosophy as a biography of the concept of being. Its thesis is that St. Anselm's notion of God provided a pivot on which philosophy turned from the Aristotelian conception of substance as the object of first philosophy to Descartes' conception of the subject as the ground of science . The changeover is not new, of course, but Anselm as the catalyst is; and an effort is made to present his role in the development with as much textual support and sustained argument as possible. Even Feuerbach appears, in this light, as a kind of inversion of the Anselmian argument.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820413399
• ISBN13: 9780820413396
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
• Length: 298 Pages