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The ultimate why question :

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(cloth : alk. paper)

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(cloth : alk. paper)

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0813218632

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9780813218632

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b415559

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The ultimate why question :

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[Book]

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why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever? /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by John F. Wippel

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Washington, D.C. :

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Catholic University of America Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2011

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vii, 261 p. ;

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24 cm

Series Title

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ;

Volume Designation

v. 54

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Text of Note

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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Wippel, John F

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20110809155843.0

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