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Aims : a brief metaphysics for today / James W. Felt.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Felt, James W., 1926-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Metaphysics.
Physical Description:
xii, 148 p.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This concise, finely crafted discussion provides a thoroughly teleological, value-centered approach to metaphysics and proves a thorough and insightful project in modern philosophy.
Contents:
The beginning
A brief description of experiencing
Interlude on method
A preliminary metaphysical interpretation of experience
Aims and the experiencing subject
The object-structure of immediate experience : space
The subject-structure of immediate experience : time
On the interactions of primary beings
Free acts
The basic structure of primary beings
Existing as participated act
Participation and God
The problem of the origin of essential aims
Three options for a solution
Making a choice
"Know yourself!"
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-142) and index.
ISBN:
9780268079659
026807965X
OCLC:
694144463

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