This essential core text introduces readers to metaphysics. In thoughtful and engaging prose, Peter van Inwagen examines three profound questions: What are the most general features of the world? Why is there a world? And, what is the place of human beings in the world? The third edition includes an entirely new chapter on ontology. The new chapter presents a theory of the nature of being and proceeds to apply this theory to two problems of ontology: the problem of non-existent objects and the problem of universals. Equally valuable as a textbook in a university course or an introduction to metaphysical thinking for the interested layperson, Metaphysics remains a fascinating book for a wide range of readers, from first-time students to the most sophisticated philosophers. Contents 1. Introduction Part One: The Way the World Is
2. Individuality
3. Externality
4. Temporality
5. Objectivity Part Two: Why the World Is
6. Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument
7. Necessary Being: The Cosmological Argument Part Three: The Inhabitants of the World
8. What Rational Beings Are There?
9. The Place of Rational Beings in the World: Design and Purpose
10. The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Physicalism
11. The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Personal Identity
12. The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will
13. Concluding Meditation
14. Coda: Being
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有位搞海德格尔的朋友翻了一下论时间的章节，鄙视地问我：他就讲这么肤浅啊？ 海派们看不起“机械的、物理的时间”。那不就像1+1=2一样简单么？他们认为，现象学时间才是深刻的，重要的，唯一值得探讨的。 其实这就是分析哲学的工作方式。打个不太严格的比方，几何公理很简单...
評分如果有一门学问可以通过自嘲获得人们的同情和热爱，通过回顾自己被拉下王座、墙倒众推的历史来博得人们的肃然起敬，通过不断叙述自己如何被对手殴打的遍体鳞伤逐出各个理性领域而引发人们对其价值的肯定，那么它无疑是形上学。
評分有位搞海德格尔的朋友翻了一下论时间的章节，鄙视地问我：他就讲这么肤浅啊？ 海派们看不起“机械的、物理的时间”。那不就像1+1=2一样简单么？他们认为，现象学时间才是深刻的，重要的，唯一值得探讨的。 其实这就是分析哲学的工作方式。打个不太严格的比方，几何公理很简单...
評分原版文字其实清晰易懂，由于译本正文或注释的错误、莫名其妙、文笔不佳等缘故中文版反而容易妨碍理解。 对于有意从事英美哲学研究的同好而言，在资金允许或网络上能够获取到资源（例如本书最新第4版已有PDF电子版）的情况下，应当直接阅读外文原版较好。毕竟如模态形而上学问...
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P74-75:we call the aggregate of fixed moments pastward from the moment “the past” and the aggregate of fixed moments furtureward from the moment “the furture”。Thus the past is continuously growing and the furture contituously shriking。Many have found it natural to picture time as a river flowing furtureward，and to pic us the inhabitants of time
评分俺錶示本體論證明那章很給力~
评分P74-75:we call the aggregate of fixed moments pastward from the moment “the past” and the aggregate of fixed moments furtureward from the moment “the furture”。Thus the past is continuously growing and the furture contituously shriking。Many have found it natural to picture time as a river flowing furtureward，and to pic us the inhabitants of time
评分俺錶示本體論證明那章很給力~
评分俺錶示本體論證明那章很給力~
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