The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics

Cover
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Title page
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Dedication
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Contents
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Introduction
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1 What Is Metaphysics and Why Do It?
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2 The Discovery and Meaning of Being
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3 Special Characteristics of Our Idea of Being as Transcendental and Analogous
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4 Unity as Transcendental Property of Being
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5 Being as One and Many: Participation in Existence through Limiting Essence
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6 The One and the Many on the Same Level of Being: Form and Matter I
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7 The World of Change: Act and Potency
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8 Self-Identity in Change: Substance and Accident
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9 Essential or Substantial Change: Form and Matter II
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10 The Metaphysical Structures of Finite Being: An Interlocking Synthesis
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11 Being in Time: What Is Time?
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12 The Extrinsic Causes of Being and Becoming: A. The Efficient Cause
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13 The Extrinsic Causes of Being and Becoming: B. The Final Cause
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14 The Final Unification of All Being: The Search for the Ultimate Source of All Being
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15 The Metaphysics of Evolution
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16 Being as Good
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17 Evil and Being
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18 The Transcendental Properties of Being: The Many Faces of Being
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19 The Great Circle of Being and Our Place in It: The Universe as Meaningful Journey
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Glossary of Terms
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Index of Names
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