Existence and the good : metaphysical necessity in morals and politics / Franklin I. Gamwell.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) and index.

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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Metaphysics of Existence -- Western Background -- Necessity of Existence -- Task of Metaphysics -- ch. 2 Metaphysics of Subjectivity -- Totality and Meaning -- Totality Is Prior to Meaning -- ch. 3 Metaphysics of God and the World -- Final Real Things -- Divine Individual -- God and the World -- ch. 4 Metaphysics of Human Purpose -- Decision for a Self-Understanding -- Comprehensive Good -- Human Purposes -- Good of Human Rights -- ch. 5 Metaphysics of Democracy, Part 1 -- Introduction -- Democracy without Metaphysics -- Democracy without Metaphysics: A Critique -- ch. 6 Metaphysics of Democracy, Part 2 -- Principle of Communicative Respect -- Constitutional Principles of Justice -- Democracy and Substantive Justice -- Democracy and the Comprehensive Good.

In this work, the author defends metaphysical necessity against both modern and postmodern critiques. The metaphysics vindicated is not the traditional form both critiques typically have in view, however. Instead, he outlines a neoclassical project for which Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne are the main philosophical resources. As it maintains the significance of theistic metaphysics, the book makes no appeal to religious authority but solely to common human experience, and on this basis articulates principles of human purpose and democratic justice.

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