Being and Value: Toward Constructive Postmodern Metaphysics

, by Ferre, Frederick

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ISBN: 9780791427569 | 0791427560
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Copyright: 1/1/1996

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Preface
Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought
What Is Metaphysics?
How Metaphysical Theories Are Familiar
How Metaphysical Theories Are Strange
How Metaphysical Theories Are Valued
Premodern Metaphysics
The Great Pioneers
Cosmos and Decent Order
The Milesians
The Pythagoreans
Change or Permanence?
Pluralists and Atomists
The Sophists
The Great Hellenes
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
The Great Transition
Value-Echoes of Some pre-Socratics
The Platonic Value-Lens
The Aristotelian Value-Lens
Premodern to Protomodern
Modern Metaphysics
The Founders
Renaissance Early Moderns
Nonmathematical Early Moderns
Kepler and Galileo
Hobbes and Descartes
The Prevalence of Matter
Malebranche and Spinoza
Boyle and Newton
Philosophes and Idéologues
Comte, Maxwell, and Einstein
The Primacy of Mind
Leibniz and Berkeley
Kant
Hegel
Bradley
The Pervasiveness of Change
Marx and Darwin
Bergson
Alexander
Whitehead
Postmodern Metaphysics
Defining the Postmodern
Poststructuralism
Liberationism
Feminism
Environmentalism
Toward an Ecological World Model
Postmodern Ecological Science
Understanding Relations
Understanding Entities
Toward a Kalogenic Universe
Fundamental Entities: In General
Fundamental Entitles: In Basic Structure
Fundamental Entities: In Themselves
The Kalogenic Universe: In the Making
Toward a Reconstructed Metaphysics
Personalistic Organicism
Constructive Postmodernism
Adequacy: The Material for Construction
Coherence: The Manner of Construction
Works Cited
Note on Centers
Name Index
Subject Index
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