Approaches to Metaphysics

Introduction: Taking Metaphysics Seriously.- Introduction: Taking Metaphysics Seriously.- Issues in Classical Metaphysics.- Does Being Have a Nature? (Or: Metaphysics as a Science of the Real).- Logic and Metaphysics in German Philosophy from Melanchthon to Hegel.- Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Pre-Established Harmony.- Modern Challenges to the Scope of Metaphysics.- The Integration of History and Metaphysics.- Suffering, Metaphysics, and Nietzsche’s Path to the Holy.- Can ‘Creation’ Be a Metaphysical Concept?.- Metaphysics West and East: Bosanquet and Sankara.- On the Road to Metaphysics — Freedom, Agency, and Existence.- Metaphysics and the Origins of Arendt’s Account of Evil and Human Freedom.- Agents, Causes, and Explanations: The Idea of a Metaphysical System.- Speculative and Analytical Philosophy, Theories of Existence, and the Generalization of the Mathematical Function.- Metaphysical Theories in a Contemporary Context.- Jacques Maritain and the Metaphysics of Plato.- Metaphysics and Idealism.- Empiricism: Principles and Problems.- The Possibility of Metaphysics.- Metaphysics as “De Insolubilibus”.- Designing Metaphysics.