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Author: David Braine (Gifford Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy, Gifford Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Aberdeen)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.50cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 22.40cm
Weight: 0.657kg
ISBN: 9780198244592
ISBN 10: 0198244592
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 11 February 1988
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Bold, ambitious, and broad in scope....A creative and original contribution to the field. --Philosophical Review<br> It ventures out boldly to lay down a robust, realist metaphysics of real substances as active agents exercising active causal power in time. It then draws from this a carefully worked out argument to the existence of God as the necessary transtemporal cause of the whole temporal order of agents....Aided by a profound and remarkably accurate understanding of the basic positions of Thomas Aquinas in metaphysics and natural theology...most of his supporting arguments...are well taken and show an extraordinary gift for clear metaphysical thinking in a fresh way that I find most invigorating. --America<br> Braine has something important to say. His central project in The Reality of Time and the Existence of God is to construct an essentially Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysicout of the resourcesof contemporary analytical philosophy. This project is inherently worthwhile, and at many points Braine carries it off with distinction. --International Studies in Philosophy<br> Undoubtedly an important work that will receive much attention --Choice<br>
<br> Bold, ambitious, and broad in scope....A creative and original contribution to the field. --Philosophical Review<br> It ventures out boldly to lay down a robust, realist metaphysics of real substances as active agents exercising active causal power in time. It then draws from this a carefully worked out argument to the existence of God as the necessary transtemporal cause of the whole temporal order of agents....Aided by a profound and remarkably accurate understanding of the basic positions of Thomas Aquinas in metaphysics and natural theology...most of his supporting arguments...are well taken and show an extraordinary gift for clear metaphysical thinking in a fresh way that I find most invigorating. --America<br> Braine has something important to say. His central project in The Reality of Time and the Existence of God is to construct an essentially Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysicout of the resourcesof contemporary analytical philosophy. This project is inherently worthwhile,
