Causality : macrocosmic and microcosmic theories of cause and effect in belief systems /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fowler, Jeaneane D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Eastbourne, UK : Sussex Academic Press, 2020.
Colección:Sussex library of religious beliefs and practices.
Temas:
Causation.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Judaic and Christian Traditions
  • Creation
  • The first account of creation
  • The second account of creation
  • Later interpretations of creation
  • Evolutionary theories
  • Jewish responses
  • Christian responses
  • The concept of the Creator God
  • The creation of human beings
  • Dualism
  • Evolving theories of creation
  • Causes of good and evil
  • Theodicy
  • Jewish theodicies
  • Christian theodicies
  • The eschaton
  • Creator and creation
  • 2. Islam
  • Islamic attitudes to causality and creation
  • The Qur'an
  • The philosophers: Falasifah
  • Al-Kindi
  • Al-Farabi
  • Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
  • Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
  • Ibn al-'Arabi
  • The theologians: Mutakallimun
  • The Mu'tazilites
  • Al-Ash'ari and the Ash'arite school
  • Al-Ghazali
  • Theodicy
  • Good and evil
  • Hidden forces of causality: Angels and satans
  • Determinism and free will
  • Eschatology
  • 3. Hinduism
  • The Vedas
  • The Vedanta
  • The darshanas
  • Purva Mimansa
  • Vaisheshika and Nyaya
  • Sankhya and Yoga
  • Vedanta schools: Advaita Vedanta
  • Vedanta schools: Vishishta-advaita
  • Devotional Hinduism
  • 4. Early Buddhism
  • The life and death of the Buddha
  • The Buddha's theory of causality
  • The Buddha's Dhamma
  • The three characteristics of existence
  • The Four Noble Truths
  • Enlightenment: Nibbana
  • Dependent Origination
  • Rebirth
  • Karma (Pali: kamma)
  • The macrocosm
  • Later trends: The rise of the different schools
  • Mahayana Buddhism
  • Madhyamaka and the philosophy of Nagarjuna
  • Yogachara
  • Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
  • 5. Classical Taoism
  • Causality
  • Good, evil and suffering in ancient China
  • Classical Taoism
  • The interconnected cosmos: The I Ching
  • Yin and yang
  • The Five Agents
  • The early philosophers of Taoism
  • The concept of Tao
  • Creation and reversal
  • Te
  • The alchemical analysis of the human being
  • The Taoist anatomy of the body
  • Good, evil and suffering in philosophical Taoism
  • Forces of good, evil and suffering in religious Taoism
  • Liberation: Returning to Tao
  • 6. Recycled Stardust
  • Primordiality and the "big bang"5
  • The cosmic microwave background
  • The creation of atoms
  • The birth of galaxies
  • The lives of stars
  • The birth and death of stars
  • Supernovae
  • Black holes
  • The causal laws of the Universe
  • The four causal field forces of the Universe
  • Einstein's theories of relativity
  • Atomic elements
  • The quantum universe
  • Atoms: Causative building blocks of matter
  • Subatomic particles
  • The nucleus
  • Quarks
  • Strange realities and mysteries of the Void
  • Life
  • The end of the Universe
  • Recycled stardust
  • 7. Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Atoms: Causality and the Death of the Self
  • The self
  • Reality
  • The brain
  • Consciousness
  • Memory
  • Emotion
  • Nature and nurture
  • Free will or determinism
  • Notes
  • Further Reading

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