1st Edition

The Existence of the World An Introduction to Ontology

By Reinhardt Grossmann Copyright 1992
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1992. The history of Western philosophy can be seen as a battle between those that insist that the "physical universe" exists and those would claim that there is a much larger "world" which contains atemporal and nonspatial things as well. The central part of this book, and the battle, concerns the existence of universals. Starting with the mediaeval definition of the... Read more

1. The Discovery of the World: Timeless Being 2. The Battle Over the World: Universals 3. The Structure of the World: The Categories 4. The Substratum of the World: Existence 5. The Enigma of the World: Negation

Biography

Reinhardt Grossmann