Philosophical mysteries /

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Author / Creator:Ross, Stephen David
Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, c1981.
Description:151 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:SUNY series in systematic philosophy
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/656756
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ISBN:0873955242
0873955250 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgment
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • General Remarks
  • Philosophical Argument
  • Philosophy as Art
  • I. Being
  • The mystery of Being is the mystery of Non-being
  • The mystery of Being is the mystery of the totality of things
  • The mystery of Being is that there is anything at all
  • The mystery of Being is that there is no reason for the existence of the world
  • The mystery of Being is the mystery of what the world is
  • The mystery of Being is that Being is inexhaustible
  • The mystery of Being is the nature of the universe
  • II. Some philosophic mysteries
  • Time and Becoming
  • Freedom and Responsibility
  • Mind
  • Value
  • III. God
  • The Divine Attributes
  • Godless Religion
  • Religious Pluralism
  • Religious Judgment
  • IV. Ordinal Pluralism
  • Ordinality
  • Integrity and Scope
  • Gross Integrity and Identity
  • Prevalence and Deviance
  • Ordinality and Non-being
  • Ontological Parity
  • The Inexhaustibility of Orders
  • Possibilities and Actualities
  • Ordinality and Being
  • Judgment
  • V. Mystery and Philosophy
  • The Origins of Mystery
  • Mystery and Judgment
  • Ultimate Mysteries
  • Reason and Mystery
  • VI. Implications and Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Index