Authentic Metaphysics in an Age of Unreality, Second Edition - Softcover

Sweeney, Leo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597522155 ISBN 13: 9781597522151

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2007

Synopsis

In an age where appearances are often substituted for what really is, deception and falsity for honesty and truth, this metaphysics book takes things 'as they actually are' and discovers that reality 'is' actuality (which as subsistent is God), that philosophical knowledge in its content is caused by what is known and is objectively true. It considers goodness and beauty, human existents as individual, relational units (e.g., the family), agents and goals, chance and evil. It is in contrast with Sartrean existentialism, process philosophy, linguistic analysis, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and deconstructionism.

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About the Author

Leo Sweeney, SJ, served as Research Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University in Chicago. He received his MA from St. Louis University and his PhD from the University of Toronto. Sweeney authored numerous other books and articles in scholarly journals and was the editor of 'Infinity' and four other volumes.

William J. Carroll (MA and PhD, Catholic University of America) is President of Benedictine University.

John J. Furlong (MA and PhD, Catholic University of America) is Professor of Philosophy at Transylvania University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597522155
• ISBN 13: 9781597522151
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 448