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001 2010053924
003 DLC
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008 110107s2011 dcu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780813218632 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aBD331$b.U48 2011
082 00 $a111$222
245 04 $aThe ultimate why question :$bwhy is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever? /$cedited by John F. Wippel.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bCatholic University of America Press,$cc2011.
300 $avii, 261 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aStudies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ;$vv. 54
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aGoodness, unity, and creation in the platonic tradition / Lloyd P. Gerson -- The question of being, non-being and "creation ex nihilo" in Chinese philosophy / May Sim -- The ultimate why question : Avicenna on why God is absolutely necessary / Jon McGinnis -- Thomas Aquinas on the ultimate why question : why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever? / John F. Wippel -- Causa sui and created truth in Descartes / Tad M. Schmaltz -- Being and being grounded / Daniel O. Dahlstrom -- Why is there anything at all rather than absolutely nothing? : F.W.J. Schelling's answer to the ultimate why question / Holger Zaborowski -- The ultimate why question : the Hegelian option / Edward C. Halper -- Some contemporary theories of divine creation / Robert Cummings Neville -- Pragmatic reflections on final causality / Brian Martine -- Optimalism and the rationality of the real : on the prospects of axiological explanation / Nicholas Rescher.
650 0 $aOntology.
650 0 $aNothing (Philosophy)
700 1 $aWippel, John F.