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Author Fowler, Jeaneane D., author.

Title Causality : macrocosmic and microcosmic theories of cause and effect in belief systems / Jeaneane Fowler.

Publication Info. Eastbourne, UK : Sussex Academic Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource
Series The Sussex library of religious beliefs and practices
Sussex library of religious beliefs and practices.
Note Includes index.
Contents Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Judaic and Christian Traditions -- Creation -- The first account of creation -- The second account of creation -- Later interpretations of creation -- Evolutionary theories -- Jewish responses -- Christian responses -- The concept of the Creator God -- The creation of human beings -- Dualism -- Evolving theories of creation -- Causes of good and evil -- Theodicy -- Jewish theodicies -- Christian theodicies -- The eschaton -- Creator and creation -- 2. Islam
Islamic attitudes to causality and creation -- The Qur'an -- The philosophers: Falasifah -- Al-Kindi -- Al-Farabi -- Ibn Sina (Avicenna) -- Ibn Rushd (Averroes) -- Ibn al-'Arabi -- The theologians: Mutakallimun -- The Mu'tazilites -- Al-Ash'ari and the Ash'arite school -- Al-Ghazali -- Theodicy -- Good and evil -- Hidden forces of causality: Angels and satans -- Determinism and free will -- Eschatology -- 3. Hinduism -- The Vedas -- The Vedanta -- The darshanas -- Purva Mimansa -- Vaisheshika and Nyaya -- Sankhya and Yoga -- Vedanta schools: Advaita Vedanta -- Vedanta schools: Vishishta-advaita
Devotional Hinduism -- 4. Early Buddhism -- The life and death of the Buddha -- The Buddha's theory of causality -- The Buddha's Dhamma -- The three characteristics of existence -- The Four Noble Truths -- Enlightenment: Nibbana -- Dependent Origination -- Rebirth -- Karma (Pali: kamma) -- The macrocosm -- Later trends: The rise of the different schools -- Mahayana Buddhism -- Madhyamaka and the philosophy of Nagarjuna -- Yogachara -- Buddhas and Bodhisattvas -- 5. Classical Taoism -- Causality -- Good, evil and suffering in ancient China -- Classical Taoism
The interconnected cosmos: The I Ching -- Yin and yang -- The Five Agents -- The early philosophers of Taoism -- The concept of Tao -- Creation and reversal -- Te -- The alchemical analysis of the human being -- The Taoist anatomy of the body -- Good, evil and suffering in philosophical Taoism -- Forces of good, evil and suffering in religious Taoism -- Liberation: Returning to Tao -- 6. Recycled Stardust -- Primordiality and the "big bang"5 -- The cosmic microwave background -- The creation of atoms -- The birth of galaxies -- The lives of stars -- The birth and death of stars -- Supernovae
Black holes -- The causal laws of the Universe -- The four causal field forces of the Universe -- Einstein's theories of relativity -- Atomic elements -- The quantum universe -- Atoms: Causative building blocks of matter -- Subatomic particles -- The nucleus -- Quarks -- Strange realities and mysteries of the Void -- Life -- The end of the Universe -- Recycled stardust -- 7. Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Atoms: Causality and the Death of the Self -- The self -- Reality -- The brain -- Consciousness -- Memory -- Emotion -- Nature and nurture -- Free will or determinism -- Notes -- Further Reading
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Subject Causation.
Causation
Other Form: Print version: FOWLER, JEANEANE. CAUSALITY. [Place of publication not identified] : SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS, 2019 1845198824 (OCoLC)1081436353
ISBN 9781782846352 (electronic bk.)
1782846352 (electronic bk.)
1845198824
9781845198824