The Paradoxical Structure of Existence

ISBN-13: 9781138537347 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 172 str.

Frederick D. Wilhelmsen

Opis

For metaphysicians who have imbibed the sober and inebriating teachings of Thomas Aquinas, existence is an act, the act which makes all things actually to be

Spis treści

Foreword

Introduction to the Transaction Edition

Introduction

1 The History of Being in Western Civilization: a Resume

2 The Problematic of Existence: a Parenthesis on Metaphysical Methodology

3 St. Thomas Aquinas and an Introduction to the Metaphysics of Existence

4 Reasoning about Existence
A. Essence as Analysis and Existence as Synthesis
B. The Paradoxical Structure of Existence

5 The Domestication of the Nothing

6 Existence as a "Towards God"

7 The Human Person: Towards a Metaphysics of the Future

8 Existence and History

9 The Philosopher and the Myth

Index

O autorze

Frederick D. Wilhelmsen