Metaphysics

Peter Van Inwagen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2019 | 4th edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-31938-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book covers the gamut of historical and contemporary arguments of metaphysics, engaging readers through three profound questions: what are the most general features of the world, why is there a world and what is the place of human beings in the world?

Autor

van Inwagen, Peter

Inhalt

Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Introduction -- The Way the World is -- Individuality -- Externality -- Temporality -- Objectivity -- Why the World is -- Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument -- Necessary Being: The Cosmological Argument -- The Inhabitants of the World -- What Rational Beings are there? -- The Place of Rational Beings in the World -- The Nature of Rational Beings -- The Nature Of Rational Beings: Dualism and Personal Identity -- The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will -- Concluding Meditation -- Coda: Being

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.07.2019
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 453 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• ISBN-10: 0-367-31938-1 / 0367319381
• ISBN-13: 978-0-367-31938-0 / 9780367319380
• Zustand: Neuware