Auf den Spuren des Einen

Jens Halfwassen presents a fresh look at metaphysics and its history, holding that the metaphysics of the One - as laid down by Plato and advanced in the Neo-Platonist tradition spanning from Plotinus to Nicholas of Cusa - is not only the historical foundation, but also the systematically unsurpassed culmination of metaphysical thought. The author also makes a case for its contemporary relevance by offering convincing answers to fundamental questions concerning the ground for the existence of the world, the absolute, the reality of the mind and freedom. He offers an in-depth analysis of Plato's metaphysics of the transcendent One which is conceptually accessible only in the form of a negative theology and deals with its most influential expressions from Plotinus up to Hegel and Schelling.