Metaphysics
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that attempts to answer the deepest questions about how things really are. The author builds his textbook around these crucial questions: what are the most general features of the world; why does the world exist and what is the nature of rational beings and thei...
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
1993
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Pt. 1 The Way the World Is
- Individuality
- Externality
- Objectivity
- Pt. 2 Why the World Is
- Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument
- Necessary Being: The Cosmological Argument
- lPt. 3 The Inhabitants of the World
- What Rational Beings Are There?
- The Place of Rational Beings in the World: Design and Purpose
- The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Physicalism
- The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Personal Identity
- The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will
- Concluding Meditation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Book and Author
- Index