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Metaphysics and Historicity Aquinas Lecture ; 1961
author
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Fackenheim, Emil L.
publisher
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Marquette University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0874621267
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9780874621266
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9780585306421
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English
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Metaphysics, History--Philosophy.
publication date
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1961
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BD111.F15 1961eb
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110
subject
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Metaphysics, History--Philosophy.
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Metaphysics and Historicity
The Aquinas Lecture, 1961
Under the Auspices of the Aristotelian Society of Marquette University
by Emil L. Fackenheim, Ph.D.
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS MILWAUKEE 1961
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Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 61-10054
Fifth Printing, 1988 Copyright 1961 By The Aristotelian Society of Marquette University ISBN 0-87462-126-7
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
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To Rose
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Prefatory
The Aristotelian Society of Marquette University each year invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas. Customarily delivered on a Sunday close to March 7, the feast day of the society's patron saint, the lectures are called the Aquinas lectures.
In 1961 the Aquinas lecture "Metaphysics and Historicity" was delivered on March 5 in the Peter A. Brooks Memorial Union of Marquette University by Dr. Emil L. Fackenheim, associate professor of the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto.
Dr. Fackenheim was born in Halle, Germany in 1916 and studied at the Universities of Halle, Germany; Aberdeen, Scotland; and Toronto, Canada. He was ordained a Rabbi at Berlin in 1939 and received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 1945.
A member of the Philosophy department at the University of Toronto since 1948, Dr. Fackenheim, a Guggenheim Fel-
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low in 1957-58, has written over sixty articles and reviews. In 1954 he received the President's Medal of the University of Western Ontario for the best scholarly article published in Canada during that year. The article was "Kant and Radical Evil," University of Toronto Quarterly, XXIII, pp. 339-53.
Among his other writing are the following:
"The Conception of Substance in the Philosophy of the Ikhwan as-Safa (Brethren of Purity)," Mediaeval Studies, V (1943), pp. 115-22.
"'A Treatise on Love,' by Ibn Sina, translated from the Arabic, with Introduction and Notes," Mediaeval Studies, VII (1945), pp. 208-28.
"The Possibility of the Universe in al-Farabi, Ibn Sina and Maimonides," Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, XVI (1947), pp. 39-70.
"Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy," in V. Ferm, A History of Philosophical Systems (New York: The Philosophical Library, 1950) pp. 171-84.
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"Schelling's Philosophy of Religion," University of Toronto Quarterly, XXII (1952), pp. 1-17.
"Schelling's Philosophy of the Literary Arts," The Philosophical Quarterly, IV (1954), pp. 310-26.
"Schelling's Conception of Positive Philosophy," The Review of Metaphysics, VII (1954), pp. 563-82.
"Kant's Concept of History," Kant-Studien, XLVIII (1957), pp. 381-98.
"Jewish Existence and the Living God," in A. Rose, A People and Its Faith (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1959), pp. 105-18.
To the list of his writings the Aristotelian Society has the pleasure of adding Metaphysics and Historicity.
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Acknowledgements
There are many reasons why I am deeply grateful for the invitation to deliver this lecture: the opportunity to pay tribute to the great metaphysician in whose honor it is given, the admission to a company of distinguished lecturers, and the gracious hospitality of Marquette University. But I appreciate above all the rare opportunity to address an audience which will not be baffled or dismayed by the straightforward use of metaphysical language. Early in the nineteenth century, Hegel made an apt remark about the then fashionable view that in order for metaphysics to be legitimate, prior epistemological justification is needed. He compared it to the desire of the legendary student who wished to learn how to swim before going into the water. Hegel's comparison might be applied to the currently fashionable view that in order for metaphysical language to be meaningful, there is need for prior semantic or linguistic justification. I am happy to be addressing an audience which knows that
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metaphysical language can be understood, justified and criticized only in the actual process of metaphysical discourse.
An earlier version of a small portion of this lecture was delivered, under the title "On Nature and History," at the ninth annual meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America, on March 29, 1958, at Providence, R.I.
I wish to thank the Oxford University Press, for permission to quote a lengthy passage from Erich Frank, Philosophical Understanding and Religious Truth (New York: 1945); and the Princeton University Press, for permission to quote an even lengthier passage from Walter Lowrie's translation of S. Kierkegaard's Either/Or (Princeton: 1944).
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Metaphysics and Historicity
Modern Man and the Predicament of History
History is a predicament for man who must live in it. In order to act in history he must seek to rise above it. He needs perspectives in terms of which to understand his situation, and timeless truths and values in terms of which to act in it. Yet the perspectives which he finds often merely reflect his age; and what he accepts as timelessly true and valid is apt to be merely the opinion which is in fashion. Thus while man must always try to rise above his historical situation he succeeds at best only precariously.
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