ABSTRACT

This book covers the gamut of historical and contemporary arguments of metaphysics, engaging readers through 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?

chapter 1|22 pages

Introduction

part I|4 pages

The Way the World is

chapter 2|26 pages

Individuality

chapter 3|17 pages

Externality

chapter 4|36 pages

Temporality

chapter 5|16 pages

Objectivity

part II|5 pages

Why the World is

chapter 6|29 pages

Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument

chapter 7|24 pages

Necessary Being: The Cosmological Argument

part III|5 pages

The Inhabitants of the World

chapter 8|12 pages

What Rational Beings are there?

chapter 9|21 pages

The Place of Rational Beings in the World

chapter 10|25 pages

The Nature of Rational Beings

chapter 13|4 pages

Concluding Meditation

chapter 14|40 pages

Coda: Being