A modern introduction to metaphysics: readings from classical and contemporary sources |
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Contents
One THE SPIRIT OF METAPHYSICAL INQUIRY | 1 |
6 A Defence of Metaphysics F H Bradley | 38 |
Two METAPHYSICAL METHOD | 57 |
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absolute abstract act of existing action actual affirmation Alfred North Whitehead analogy analysis answer Aristotle assertion become called causality cause character cognitive common conceived concept concrete consciousness definition Descartes distinction divine doctrine eclecticism empirical essay essence everything evidence existential existentialist experience expression F. H. Bradley fact finite formal G. E. Moore grasp Hegel Hence human hypothesis idea ideal infinite inquiry intellect intelligible interpretation intuition Jacques Maritain Kant kind knowledge logical matter meaning merely meta metaphysician metaphysics method mind mode monism nature notion object ontological Parmenides perfection person philosophy physics Plato possible present presupposes principle problem propositions pure question reality reason relation Scholasticism scientific sense simply Socrates speak Spinoza spiritual statement substance theory things Thomas Thomas Aquinas Thomistic thought tion transcendent true truth understand unity universal whole words