What Happens to Us When We Think: Transformation and Reality

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SUNY Press, Jul 17, 2003 - Philosophy - 149 pages
Author Michael Gelven suggests that thinking metaphysically transforms us, and consequently the nature of metaphysics itself is transformational. Using concrete existential phenomena such as the learning process, how children mature into adults, and how fear can develop into courage, he establishes an understanding of metaphysical transformation.
 

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Transformations
1
Wonder
19
Being Real
31
Violence
43
Truth
59
The Learner
71
The Student
89
The Child
107
Conflict and Coherence
119
Origins
133
Index
145
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Michael Gelven is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University and the author of many books, including Truth and the Comedic Art, also published by SUNY Press, and A Commentary on Heidegger s Being and Time, Revised Edition.

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