| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 261 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 54
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Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 54.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Ontology.
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Ontology. |
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Nothing (Philosophy)
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Nothing (Philosophy) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wippel, John F.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780813218632 0813218632 (DLC) 2010053924 |
| ISBN |
0813219159 (electronic book) |
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9780813219158 (electronic book) |
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9780813218632 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0813218632 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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