Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 447 g
Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 447 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-927050-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford
The question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?', has a strong claim to be philosophy's central, and most perplexing, questionl. Bede Rundle challenges the stalemate between theistic and naturalistic explanations with a rigorous, properly philosophical approach, and presents some startlingly novel conclusions.
Why should there be anything at all? Why, in particular, should a material world exist? Bede Rundle advances clear, non-technical answers to these perplexing questions. If, as the theist maintains, God is a being who cannot but exist, his existence explai
1. Theology and meaning; 2. God and explanation; 3. Causation and necessity; 4. Creation and conservation; 5. Essence and existence; 6. Matter and abstractions; 7. Mind and agency; 8. Time and explanation; Bibliography; Index
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
- Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie
- Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Zeiterfassung, Chronologie




