Understanding Our Being: Introduction to Speculative Philosophy in the Perennial Tradition
Understanding Our Being: Introduction to Speculative Philosophy in the Perennial Tradition
by John W. Carlson
Catholic University of America Press, 2008 eISBN: 978-0-8132-2034-5 | Paper: 978-0-8132-1518-1 Library of Congress Classification BD21.C364 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 149.91
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Written as an undergraduate textbook, Understanding Our Being treats central topics about our knowledge of being, the being of the natural world, and, via the latter, being as such
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part 1. Being
1.1 Knowledge of Being: A Realist Approach
1.2 Philosophy of Natural Being
1.3 Implications of Natural Philosophy
1.4 Metaphysics Proper
1.5 Fundamental Principles and Their Implications
Part 2. Our Personal Being
2.1 Approaches to the Human
2.2 Life of Knowledge
2.3 Life of Affectivity and Choice
2.4 Persons in Community
2.5 Human Soul as Spiritual
Part 3. God--Being's Source and End
3.1 Reasoning to God?
3.2 Knowledge of God: Negative and Analogical
3.3 The World and Its Creator
3.4 Providence and Evil
3.5 "God's Call" and the Response of Faith
Epilogue
Glossary
Bibliography
Index