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" The Ultimate Why Question "
edited by John F. Wippel.
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BL
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586341
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b415560
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The Ultimate Why Question : Why Is There Nothing at All Rather than Nothing Whatsoever? /\ edited by John F. Wippel.
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Washington, D.C. :: Catholic University of America Press,, c2011.
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Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ;; v. 54
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1 online resource (vii, 261 p. )
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9780813219158
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9780813218632 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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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)
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Ontology.
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111
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Wippel, John F.
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Project Muse.
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