Recovery of the measure
Subtitle: interpretation and nature
By: Robert Cummings Neville.
Series: Axiology of thinking ;; v. 2
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Philosophy of nature.; Hermeneutics.; Metaphysics.; Philosophy, American -- 20th century.
Description: Neville's most significant scholarly contribution is arguably his metaphysical theory of being (or being-itself): a new theory that involves an original solution to the ancient problem of the one and the many. He developed this theory for his PhD dissertation at Yale University (graduated 1963), of which his first book, God the Creator, constitutes a substantial revision. Exploring the implications of that theory has enabled him to produce a philosophy of nature that rivals Alfred North Whitehead's in scope and power, as can be seen from his three-volume Axiology of Thinking. The first volume in that trilogy, Reconstruction of Thinking (1981), was hailed by Donald W. Sherburne?editor of the corrected edition of Whitehead's Process and Reality?as "a truly important book. It is the first genuinely neo-Whiteheadian offering on a large, systematic scale."The second volume of the trilogy, Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature (1989), was also well received. The prominent Confucian scholar and philosopher David L. Hall wrote of it as follows: "Because of its timeliness, the brilliance of its arguments, and the profundity of its conclusions,
Notes: Bibliography: p. 339-354.
Includes index.