Approaches to metaphysics

Introduction: Taking Metaphysics Seriously....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Does Being Have a Nature? (Or: Metaphysics as a Science of the Real)....Pages 23-59
Logic and Metaphysics in German Philosophy from Melanchthon to Hegel....Pages 61-74
Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Pre-Established Harmony....Pages 75-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
The Integration of History and Metaphysics....Pages 93-100
Suffering, Metaphysics, and Nietzsche’s Path to the Holy....Pages 111-125
Can ‘Creation’ Be a Metaphysical Concept?....Pages 127-136
Metaphysics West and East: Bosanquet and Sankara....Pages 137-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Metaphysics and the Origins of Arendt’s Account of Evil and Human Freedom....Pages 159-179
Agents, Causes, and Explanations: The Idea of a Metaphysical System....Pages 181-207
Speculative and Analytical Philosophy, Theories of Existence, and the Generalization of the Mathematical Function....Pages 209-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Jacques Maritain and the Metaphysics of Plato....Pages 229-248
Metaphysics and Idealism....Pages 249-264
Empiricism: Principles and Problems....Pages 265-300
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
Metaphysics as “ De Insolubilibus ”....Pages 303-315
Designing Metaphysics....Pages 317-326