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Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Introduction 1. What Is Metaphysics and Why Do It? 2. The Discovery and Meaning of Being 3. Special Characteristics of Our Idea of Being as Transcendental and Analogous 4. Unity as Transcendental Property of Being 5. Being as One and Many: Participation in Existence through Limiting Essence 6. The One and the Many on the Same Level of Being: Form and Matter I 7. The World of Change: Act and Potency 8. Self-Identity in Change: Substance and Accident 9. Essential or Substantial Change: Form and Matter II. 10. The Metaphysical Structures of Finite Being: An Interlocking Synthesis11. Being in Time: What Is Time? 12. The Extrinsic Causes of Being and Becoming: A. The Efficient Cause 13. The Extrinsic Causes of Being and Becoming: B. The Final Cause 14. The Final Unification of All Being: The Search for the Ultimate Source of All Being 15. The Metaphysics of Evolution 16. Being as Good 17. Evil and Being 18. The Transcendental Properties of Being: The Many Faces of Being 19. The Great Circle of Being and Our Place in It: The Universe as Meaningful Journey Glossary of Terms.

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Author
Clarke, William Norris
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9780268077044
Category
philosophy
Subjects
Christian, Social Science, Physics
Rating
4.31 / 5 (94 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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