RomanJoe wrote:
That's a great point about ontologically literacy. I think right now we just operate with two fundamentally opposed worldviews and he seems too swayed by a materialist presumption to properly consider any other view of the world. Any reading recommendations? I thought about Oderberg's Real Essentialism or perhaps the first couple chapters of Feser's Scholastic Metaphysics (I believe he deals with the claim that metaphysics is merely conceptual).
The first chapter of E. J. Lowe's A Survey of Metaphysics, perhaps? That is what we used for the ontology reading group.
Neither Scholastic Metaphysics nor Real Essentialism are introductions in the sense of "being for people completely new to philosophy". The first chapter of Scholastic Metaphysics couldn't hurt, though.
