“In essence, ontotheology means considering God as a being i.e., as one of the beings, even though a very exalted one (and not, for example, as residing beyond the category of beings). This term has suffered much; it originated with Immanuel Kant and became widely known through its use (with a different content) by Heidegger. Today it is usually used in a much wider sense, denoting the hardly avoidable inclusion of philosophical theology in philosophy through metaphysics (Aristotle’s “first philosophy”), where a sharp distinction between the philosophical and theological aspects of it is extremely difficult. The problem is that by including God in the ontological enquiry, God is reified, he is made an object within existence—albeit the highest, the most perfect, etc., but nonetheless one object within being.”
Excerpt From: Mitralexis, Sotiris. “Ever-Moving Repose.” Casacde Books. iBooks.
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