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This comprehensive and detailed study of individuation reveals the theological nature of metaphysics. Adrian Pabst argues that ancient and modern conceptions of “being”—or individual substance—fail to account for the ontological relations that bind beings to each other and to God, their source. On the basis of a genealogical account of rival theories of creation and individuation from Plato to...

speculative treatise on a new principle of individuation.4 Rather, it combines a genealogical inquiry into the formation of two rival accounts with a theological critique of ancient and modern philosophy as well as a wider argument in favor of a theological metaphysic that overcomes the unresolved tension between the one and the many bequeathed by both antiquity and modernity. Why the chosen problem of individuation? Traditionally, the one and the many have been held in opposition, at least since
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