Existence and the good : metaphysical necessity in morals and politics /
In this work, the author defends metaphysical necessity against both modern and postmodern critiques. The metaphysics vindicated is not the traditional form both critiques typically have in view, however. Instead, he outlines a neoclassical project for which Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartsh...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Metaphysics of Existence
- Western Background
- Necessity of Existence
- Task of Metaphysics
- ch. 2 Metaphysics of Subjectivity
- Totality and Meaning
- Totality Is Prior to Meaning
- ch. 3 Metaphysics of God and the World
- Final Real Things
- Divine Individual
- God and the World
- ch. 4 Metaphysics of Human Purpose
- Decision for a Self-Understanding
- Comprehensive Good
- Human Purposes
- Good of Human Rights
- ch. 5 Metaphysics of Democracy, Part 1
- Introduction
- Democracy without Metaphysics
- Democracy without Metaphysics: A Critique
- ch. 6 Metaphysics of Democracy, Part 2
- Principle of Communicative Respect
- Constitutional Principles of Justice
- Democracy and Substantive Justice
- Democracy and the Comprehensive Good.