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The Ultimate Why Question

9780813219158

9780813218632 (cloth : alk. paper)

b415560

The Ultimate Why Question

[Book]

Why Is There Nothing at All Rather than Nothing Whatsoever? /

edited by John F. Wippel.

Washington, D.C. :

Catholic University of America Press,

c2011.

(Baltimore, Md. :

Project MUSE,

2015)

1 online resource (vii, 261 p. )

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ;

v. 54

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Goodness, unity, and creation in the platonic tradition / Lloyd P. Gerson -- The question of being, non-being and "creation ex nihilo" in Chinese philosophy / May Sim -- The ultimate why question : Avicenna on why God is absolutely necessary / Jon McGinnis -- Thomas Aquinas on the ultimate why question : why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever? / John F. Wippel -- Causa sui and created truth in Descartes / Tad M. Schmaltz -- Being and being grounded / Daniel O. Dahlstrom -- Why is there anything at all rather than absolutely nothing? : F.W.J. Schelling's answer to the ultimate why question / Holger Zaborowski -- The ultimate why question : the Hegelian option / Edward C. Halper -- Some contemporary theories of divine creation / Robert Cummings Neville -- Pragmatic reflections on final causality / Brian Martine -- Optimalism and the rationality of the real : on the prospects of axiological explanation / Nicholas Rescher.

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Nothing (Philosophy)

Ontology.

Wippel, John F.

Project Muse.

20180817102759.0

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