Conatus: THIRD EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview

C O N A T U S

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION 7

1. INTRODUCTION 9

TRUTH 15

2. FOUNDATIONS 17

3. TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE 35

4. W 47 HERE THE W ORLD F IRST S PLITS

5. SIMPLE SPLITS AND MYSTERIAN SPLITS! 51

6. ANOTHER SPLIT — MIND AND BODY 61

7. CONSCIOUSNESS 73

8. TAKING THINGS TO THE NEXT LEVEL 81

9. A L 85 ITTLE B IT OF S OUL

10. THE VIEW FROM ETERNITY 93

Infinity and Eternity .............................................................95 The Idea of ‘The One’..........................................................97 ‘The Many’ ..........................................................................97 The Nature of God ...............................................................98 An apparent perfection contrasting with less-than-perfect reality .................................................................................106 The Notion of Time and the View from Eternity ...............106 11. CONTENDERS FOR THE BIG PICTURE 111

Idealism..............................................................................112 Rationalism and Empiricism ..............................................113 Correspondence and Coherence .........................................114 Mysterianism......................................................................114 Pragmatism.........................................................................116 Post-modernism..................................................................116 Phenomenology..................................................................118

BEAUTY 127

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