The Nature of Existence: Volume 1
Author : John McTaggart
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 1988-07-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780521357685
Author : John McTaggart
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 1988-07-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780521357685
Author : John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 1988-07-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780521357692
Author : Richard M. Gale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107142350
This influential book evaluates the arguments for the existence and nature of God that emerged in the late twentieth century.
Author : Ivor Leclerc
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317852982
This is Volume II of six in a collection on Epistemology. Originally published in 1972, the central concern of this book is the understanding of the nature of the universe. Its field is thus that which until the eighteenth century had been known as philosophia naturalis, the philosophy of nature. The aim of the book is to elucidate and examine the fundamental concepts in terms of which the universe is understood.
Author : Blaze Goldburst
Publisher : REVEREND CROWN PUBLICATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8194380022
BLAZON, A TIGER, IS TRAPPED IN THE DEADLIEST APOCALYPSE- REVERSED ORDER EXISTENCE. REVERSED ORDER EXISTENCE has engulfed Tra Land. It is the weapon of the rising Mediocre (Monsters) led by MIZARD, the monster lord against the Meritorious (Tras) led by their Reverend Crown DIAMONDES. Meritocracy is responsible to have created dangerous divisions and deprivations amongst citizens through Status States. But BLAZON is no tra or monster but is tortured and chased. There is too little time to survive and incomplete deaths are rapid. Identity, love, betrayal, treachery, power, survival, family, friendship, tiger-human conflict will be judged in REVERSED ORDER EXISTENCE. There is no going back! Editorial Reviews REVERSED ORDER EXISTENCE: An apocalypse made by indicting the nature, manipulating the Natural Order of Existence. If all the existing energies, resources that exist in the Natural Order of Existence are sucked out from the particular world and stored and concentrated in another, then the former gets rid of the natural conditions of life and existence. -REVEREND CROWN PUBLICATIONS An Invention in SF/Fantasy -V MUKUND A Unique Dystopian Novel -ZEDEK
Author : Joshua Hoffman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2002-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134831358
Substance has been a leading idea in the history of Western philosophy. Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz explain the nature and existence of individual substances, including both living things and inanimate objects. Specifically written for students new to this important and often complex subject, Substance provides both the historical and contemporary overview of the debate. Great Philosophers of the past, such as Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Locke, and Berkeley were profoundly interested in the concept of substance. And, the authors argue, a belief in the existence of substances is an integral part of our everyday world view. But what constitutes substance? Was Aristotle right to suggest that artefacts like tables and ships don't really exist? Substance: Its Nature and Existence is one of the first non-technical, accessible guides to this central problem and will be of great use to students of metaphysics and philosophy.
Author : Christopher Alexander
Publisher : Nature of Order
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0972652914
In Book Oneof this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and establishes this understanding of living structures as an intellectual basis for a new architecture. He identifies fifteen geometric properties which tend to accompany the presence of life in nature, and also in the buildings and cities we make. These properties are seen over and over in nature and in the cities and streets of the past, but they have almost disappeared in the impersonal developments and buildings of the last hundred years. This book shows that living structures depend on features which make a close connection with the human self, and that only living structure has the capacity to support human well-being.
Author : W.F. Vallicella
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401705887
The heart of philosophy is metaphysics, and at the heart of the heart lie two questions about existence. What is it for any contingent thing to exist? Why does any contingent thing exist? Call these the nature question and the ground question, respectively. The first concerns the nature of the existence of the contingent existent; the second concerns the ground of the contingent existent. Both questions are ancient, and yet perennial in their appeal; both have presided over the burial of so many of their would-be undertakers that it is a good induction that they will continue to do so. For some time now, the preferred style in addressing such questions has been deflationary when it has not been eliminativist. Ask Willard Quine what existence is, and you will hear that "Existence is what existential quantification expresses. "! Ask Bertrand Russell what it is for an individual to exist, and he will tell you that an individual can no more exist than it can be numerous: there 2 just is no such thing as the existence of individuals. And of course Russell's eliminativist answer implies that one cannot even ask, on pain of succumbing to the fallacy of complex question, why any contingent individual exists: if no individual exists, there can be no question why any individual exists. Not to mention Russell's modal corollary: 'contingent' and 'necessary' can only be said de dicto (of propositions) and not de re (of things).
Author : Paul Henri Thiery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1000696642
Originally published in 1984. Paul Henri Thiery, Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789), was the center of the radical wing of the philosophers. Holbach wrote, translated, edited, and issued a stream of books and pamphlets, often under other names, that has made him the despair of bibliographers but has connected his name, by innuendo, gossip, and association, with most of what was written in defeense of atheistic materialism in late eighteenth-century France. Holbach is best known for The System of Nature (1770) and deservedly, since it is a clear exposition of his main ideas. His initial position determines all the rest of his argument: 'There is not, there can be nothing out of that Nature which includes all beings.' Conceiving of nature as strictly limited to matter and motion, both of which have always existed, he flatly denies that there is any such thing as spirit or supernatural. This is the first of three volumes.
Author : Benedictus de Spinoza
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 1985-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691072221
"The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosopher's work. The elaborate editorial apparatus--including prefaces, notes, glossary, and indexes--assists the reader in understanding one of the world's most fascinating, but also most difficult, philosophers. Of particular interest is the glossary-index, which provides extensive commentary on Spinoza's technical vocabulary. A milestone of scholarship more than forty-five years in the making, The Collected Works of Spinoza is an essential edition for anyone with a serious interest in Spinoza or the history of philosophy." --Inside jacket flap.