Idealism, Metaphysics and Community

William Sweet

Contents: Introduction: Idealism, metaphysics and community in the 20th century, William Sweet; Idealism: Primus inter pares: D.C. Stove among the idealists, Hugo Meynell; F.H. Bradley’s absolute, or rationality transmuted, Lee F. Werth; Bradley and Green on relations, W.J. Mander; F.H. Bradley on conflict of interest, Don MacNiven; F.H. Bradley’s metaphysics of feeling and the theory of relations, James Bradley; Metaphysics: Anti anti-realism, John Leslie; St. Thomas and infinite causal regress, Lawrence Dewan, o.p.; Leslie Armour, Spinoza and rational psychology, James Thomas; The suffering reality of reasoning and love: Kierkegaard’s attempt to overcome epistemological scepticism, Vidar Lande; On time and eternity, Thomas De Koninck; Community: Radhakrishnan’s concept of universal liberation, Kevin Sullivan; The act/rule dispute, Richard M. Fox; Conceptualizing community in order to realize it, Brenda Wirkus; Religious belief and community, William Sweet; Cultural diversity and national identity in Canadian political philosophy, David Lea; A history of the history of philosophy in Canada, Bradley Russell Munro; Cows, wolves and the absolute, Elizabeth Trott; Canadian nationalism and Canadian philosophy, Robin Mathews; Afterword: Beyond idealism?, William Sweet; Bibliography of the works of Leslie Armour; Index.