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Metaphysics : constructing a world view / William Hasker.

By: Series: Contours of Christian philosophyPublication details: Downers Grove, IL : InterVarsity Press, c1983.Description: 132 p. ; pbk ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0877843414 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 110/HAS
Contents:
1. Introducing metaphysics: Metaphysical questions -- Answering metaphysical questions -- Evaluating metaphysical theories -- 2. Freedom and necessity: Are we really free? -- Compatibilism: a way out? -- Determinism: arguments and objections -- Free will: arguments and objections -- Freedom, necessity and God -- 3. Minds and bodies: The mystery of mind and body -- Avoiding the problem: behaviorism and idealism -- Dualism -- Materialism -- Emergentism -- Eternal life: immortality or resurrection? -- 4. The World: What is the real nature of the world? -- The idealist rejection of realism -- The scientific critique of realism -- Consequences of scientific realism -- The origin of the world -- 5. God and the world: God and metaphysics -- Naturalism: the world without God -- Pantheism: God as identical with the world -- Panentheism: God as including the world -- Theism: God as Creator of the world -- Epilog: a Christian metaphysic?.
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Book The Emmaus Library 100 Philosophy and Psychology 110/HAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 12860

Bibliography: p. [130]-132.

1. Introducing metaphysics: Metaphysical questions --
Answering metaphysical questions --
Evaluating metaphysical theories --
2. Freedom and necessity: Are we really free? --
Compatibilism: a way out? --
Determinism: arguments and objections --
Free will: arguments and objections --
Freedom, necessity and God --
3. Minds and bodies: The mystery of mind and body --
Avoiding the problem: behaviorism and idealism --
Dualism --
Materialism --
Emergentism --
Eternal life: immortality or resurrection? --
4. The World: What is the real nature of the world? --
The idealist rejection of realism --
The scientific critique of realism --
Consequences of scientific realism --
The origin of the world --
5. God and the world: God and metaphysics --
Naturalism: the world without God --
Pantheism: God as identical with the world --
Panentheism: God as including the world --
Theism: God as Creator of the world --
Epilog: a Christian metaphysic?.

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