The ultimate why question
Subtitle: why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
By: edited by John F. Wippel
Series: Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy -- v. 54
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780813218632
Subjects: Ontology; Nothing (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Goodness, unity, and creation in the platonic tradition / Lloyd P. Gerson; title: The question of being, non-being and "creation ex nihilo" in Chinese philosophy / May Sim; title: The ultimate why question : Avicenna on why God is absolutely necessary / Jon McGinnis; title: Thomas Aquinas on the ultimate why question : why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever? / John F. Wippel; title: Causa sui and created truth in Descartes / Tad M. Schmaltz; title: Being and being grounded / Daniel O. Dahlstrom; title: Why is there anything at all rather than absolutely nothing? : F.W.J. Schelling's answer to the ultimate why question / Holger Zaborowski; title: The ultimate why question : the Hegelian option / Edward C. Halper; title: Some contemporary theories of divine creation / Robert Cummings Neville; title: Pragmatic reflections on final causality / Brian Martine; title: Optimalism and the rationality of the real : on the prospects of axiological explanation / Nicholas Rescher.