The Idea of Man

             Abstract
             This book seeks to layout the basis for a good idea of man by developing the logic that naturally flows from that which is original, necessary, inherent and essential to him - his upright posture. The verticality of man, simply and mutely constituted by his innate 'uprightness', is understood as original, constant and necessary to his being, to the world of language and to the very possibility of Being itself.

The Idea of Man

           Table of Contents
    1 – Significance, the Essence of Man
       1a – The Priority of Essence to History
    2 – The Significance of Pointing
    3 – The Significance of the ‘Edge’
    4 – The Significance of Language
    5 – The Birth of the Person
    6 – The Possibility of Knowing
    7 – Thinking and Knowing 
        7a - Thinking - 'What' Things Are
        7b - Thinking -  'How' Things Are
        7c - Thinking - 'Why' Things Are
    8 – Thinking and the World of Things
       8a – The Possibility of Understanding
       8b – Time and the Stillness of Things 

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       Author: Mark Aman
         -- B.A., Philosophy, Loyola College of Maryland, 1972
         -- M.A., Clinical Psychology, Duquesne University, 1977
         --All-but-dissertation completed for the Ph.D. in Phenomenological Psychology, Duquesne University, 1980. Dissertation topic: ‘The Lived Experience of Time’ was suspended in 1982 and taken up again in the present work.
     
       Author contact:
    mark@ideaofman.org