Reviving Intellectual Intuition in Metaphysics: Contemplative Philosophies and Being

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Focused on the question of what is being itself, Kenneth Rose presents a study that offers a new view of being as generosity, or unhindered openness. Rose argues for the reinstatement of intellectual intuition in metaphysics long after its banning by Kant. His claim is not merely the conclusion of a thought-experiment or of an exercise in conceptual analysis. It is the result of the contemplative recognition of being with a meditatively concentrated intellect: nous in Greek and buddhi in Sanskrit. Recognizing intellectual intuition as a long-neglected faculty of philosophical insight, Rose shows how it can result in an immediate, intuitive discerning of being. He discusses how being parcels itself out into the intellectual forms providing the underlying nonphysical arrangement of the physical and mental worlds. By reviving the use of intellectual intuition in metaphysics, Rose draws upon historical sources across multiple Asian and Anglo-European philosophical schools. This is a work of contemplative constructive philosophy that breaks down divisions between science, philosophy, and religion and between diverse cultures and divergent worldviews.

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Kenneth Rose is a former Senior Research Fellow at the Graduate Theological Union, USA and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Christopher Newport University, USA. He is the author of Yoga, Meditation, and Mysticism (2016), Pluralism: The Future of Religion (2013), and Knowing the Real: John Hick on the Cognitivity of Religions and Religious Pluralism (1996).