What It Is to Exist : : The Contribution of Thomas Aquinas’s View to the Contemporary Debate /

What It Is to Exist : : The Contribution of Thomas Aquinas’s View to the Contemporary Debate / / Patrick Zoll.

One important task of metaphysics is to answer the question of what it is for an object to exist. The first part of this book offers a systematic reconstruction and critique of contemporary views on existence. The upshot of this part is that the contemporary debate has reached an impasse because non...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
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Zoll, Patrick,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie , 149
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 228 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Contemporary Debate About the Nature Question
  • 1 The Non-Reductive-Object View
  • 2 The Reductive-Object View
  • 3 The Property View
  • 4 The Unrestricted-Domain View
  • 5 The Restricted-Domain View
  • Part II: The Contribution of Thomas Aquinas’s View to the Debate
  • Introduction
  • 6 Aquinas’s View on What It Is for a Substance to Exist
  • 7 Why Aquinas’s View Can Solve the Problems
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects

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