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The ultimate why question : bwhy is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever? / edited by John F. Wippel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 261 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813219158
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BD331 .U485 2011
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Lloyd P. Gerson -- The question of being, non-being and "creation ex nihilo" in Chinese philosophy / May Sim -- The ultimate why question : Avicenna on why God is absolutely necessary / Jon McGinnis -- Thomas Aquinas on the ultimate why question : why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever? / John F. Wippel -- Causa sui and created truth in Descartes / Tad M. Schmaltz -- Being and being grounded / Daniel O. Dahlstrom -- Why is there anything at all rather than absolutely nothing? : F.W.J. Schelling's answer to the ultimate why question / Holger Zaborowski -- The ultimate why question : the Hegelian option / Edward C. Halper -- Some contemporary theories of divine creation / Robert Cummings Neville -- Pragmatic reflections on final causality / Brian Martine -- Optimalism and the rationality of the real : on the prospects of axiological explanation / Nicholas Rescher.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Goodness, unity, and creation in the platonic tradition / Lloyd P. Gerson -- The question of being, non-being and "creation ex nihilo" in Chinese philosophy / May Sim -- The ultimate why question : Avicenna on why God is absolutely necessary / Jon McGinnis -- Thomas Aquinas on the ultimate why question : why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever? / John F. Wippel -- Causa sui and created truth in Descartes / Tad M. Schmaltz -- Being and being grounded / Daniel O. Dahlstrom -- Why is there anything at all rather than absolutely nothing? : F.W.J. Schelling's answer to the ultimate why question / Holger Zaborowski -- The ultimate why question : the Hegelian option / Edward C. Halper -- Some contemporary theories of divine creation / Robert Cummings Neville -- Pragmatic reflections on final causality / Brian Martine -- Optimalism and the rationality of the real : on the prospects of axiological explanation / Nicholas Rescher.

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