Felt, James W.

Adventures in Unfashionable Philosophy. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (287 pages)

Cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. On Being Yourself -- 2. Invitation to a Philosophic Revolution -- 3. The Temporality of Divine Freedom -- 4. Philosophic Understanding and the Continuity of Becoming -- 5. Transmutation and Whitehead's Elephant -- 6. Coming Around Again in Philosophy -- 7. Impossible Worlds -- 8. God's Choice: Reflections on Evil in a Created World -- 9. Whitehead's Misconception of "Substance" in Aristotle -- 10. Intuition, Event-Atomism, and the Self -- 11. Faces of Time -- 12. Fatalism and Truth about the Future -- 13. Relational Realism and the Great Deception of Sense -- 14. Why Possible Worlds Aren't -- 15. Proposal for a Thomistic-Whiteheadian Metaphysics of Becoming -- 16. Epochal Time and the Continuity of Experience -- 17. "Know Yourself!" -- Notes -- Index.

Adventures in Unfashionable Philosophy contains essays that address fundamental philosophical problems in the spirit of traditional metaphysics but updated with modern concerns.

9780268079673


Thomas,-Aquinas, Saint,-1225?-1274.
Whitehead, Alfred North,-1861-1947.
Metaphysics.
Philosophy, Modern.


Electronic books.

BD111 .F273 2010

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