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