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Author | : Leszek Kolakowski |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2007-11-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0465010385 |
Do we have free will? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we see? These are some of the questions that have intrigued the world's greatest thinkers over the ages. They are questions that make us think about the way we live, work, relate to each other, and see the world. In elegant and accessible prose, the eminent philosopher Leszek Kolakowski explores the essence of these ideas and their ongoing relevance as he introduces us to the great figures of Western thought: from Socrates to St. Augustine, Descartes to Nietzsche, and beyond. Reflecting on the great issues that animate our lives -- good and evil, truth and beauty, faith and the soul, free will and consciousness -- Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? offers a guided tour of Western philosophy by one of the world's greatest living experts.
Author | : Jim Holt |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2012-07-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0871404095 |
In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddleof existence from the ancient world to modern times.
Author | : Lawrence Maxwell Krauss |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 145162445X |
This is a provocative account of the astounding new answers to the most basic philosophical question: Where did the universe come from and how will it end?
Author | : Tyron Goldschmidt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2014-02-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1136249222 |
This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does science answer the question? Or does theology? Does everything need an explanation? Or can there be brute, inexplicable facts? Could there have been nothing whatsoever? Or is there any being that could not have failed to exist? Is the question meaningful after all? The volume advances cutting-edge debates in metaphysics, philosophy of cosmology and philosophy of religion, and will intrigue and challenge readers interested in any of these subjects.
Author | : Bede Rundle |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199270503 |
This work offers an explanation of fundamental facts of existence in purely philosophical terms, without appeal either to theology or cosmology. It will provoke and intrigue anyone who wonders about these questions.
Author | : John F. Wippel |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2011-06-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813218632 |
This volume gathers studies by prominent scholars and philosophers about the question how have major figures from the history of philosophy, and some contemporary philosophers, addressed "the ultimate why question": why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
Author | : Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780791444177 |
Schelling's never completed "masterpiece", translated here with an introduction covering Schelling's life, other works, and a brief analysis of The Ages of the World by Wirth (philosophy, Ogelthorpe U.), explores the question of time as the relationship between poetry and philosophy. Contemporary philosophers herald this work as a predecessor to the modern debates about post-modernity and the limits of dialectical thinking.
Author | : John Leslie |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2013-04-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0470673559 |
This compelling study of the origins of all that exists, including explanations of the entire material world, traces the responses of philosophers and scientists to the most elemental and haunting question of all: why is anything hereāor anything anywhere? Why is there something rather than nothing? Why not nothing? It includes the thoughts of dozens of luminaries from Plato and Aristotle to Aquinas and Leibniz to modern thinkers such as physicists Stephen Hawking and Steven Weinberg, philosophers Robert Nozick and Derek Parfit, philosophers of religion Alvin Plantinga and Richard Swinburne, and the Dalai Lama. The first accessible volume to cover a wide range of possible reasons for the existence of all reality, from over 50 renowned thinkers, including Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, Bertrand Russell, Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Robert Nozick, Derek Parfit, Alvin Plantinga, Richard Swinburne, John Polkinghorne, Paul Davies, and the Dalai Lama Features insights by scientists, philosophers, and theologians Includes informative and helpful editorial introductions to each section Provides a wealth of suggestions for further reading and research Presents material that is both comprehensive and comprehensible
Author | : Janet Broughton |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2003-10-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780691117324 |
In 'Descartes's Method of Doubt', Broughton analyses Descartes's novel way of raising radical doubt and argues that he thought he could use doubt to achieve certainty by uncovering the conditions that make radical doubt possible.
Author | : Simon Prosser |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198748949 |
Our engagement with time is a ubiquitous feature of our lives. We are aware of time on many scales, from the briefest flicker of change to the way our lives unfold over many years. But to what extent does this encounter reveal the true nature of temporal reality? To the extent that temporal reality is as it seems, how do we come to be aware of it? And to the extent that temporal reality is not as it seems, why does it seem that way? These are the central questions addressed by Simon Prosser in Experiencing Time. These questions take on a particular importance in philosophy for two reasons. Firstly, there is a view concerning the metaphysics of time, known as the B-theory of time, according to which the apparently dynamic quality of change, the special status of the present, and even the passage of time are all illusions. Instead, the world is a four-dimensional space-time block, lacking any of the apparent dynamic features of time. If the B-theory is correct, as the book argues, then it must be explained why our experiences seem to tell us otherwise. Secondly, experiences of temporal features such as changes, rates and durations are of independent interest because of certain puzzles that they raise, the solutions to which may shed light on broader issues in the philosophy of mind.