Way Toward Wisdom, The : An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Introduction to Metaphysics /

Working from a realist Thomistic epistemology, Ashley asserts that we must begin our search for wisdom in the natural sciences; only then, he believes, can we ensure that our claims about immaterial and invisible things are rooted in reliable experience of the material. Any attempt to share wisdom,...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Ashley, Benedict M.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Metaphysics.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
metaphysics.
Metaphysique.
Metaphysics
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The problem of the unification of knowledge
  • The historical varieties of "metaphysics" in Western culture
  • Natural science is epistemologically first
  • The culminating foundational theorem of natural science
  • The existence and essence of metascience
  • Unity, plurality, and efficient causality
  • Unity and plurality in other sciences
  • Truth and formal causality
  • Truth in the special sciences
  • Goodness and final causality
  • Finality in the special sciences
  • The absolute and/or nature
  • The one creating first cause
  • The way toward wisdom.

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