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absolute, the, 142, 161, 162. See also nothing/ nothingness; absolute Absolute Idea (Hegel), 16, 178–79, 182n27 abstractions, 182, 214, 215, 216 abyss, 46, 122, 167 action(s): in Chinese philosophy, 50, 54, 55–56, 59; external, 3, 35, 38; God as agent of, 186n34, 186n35, 202. See also agency/ agents; creation, act of actual entities, 50n28, 78, 194–99 actuality, 15, 50, 173, 180 actualization, 53n47, 82, 226–27 agency/agents, 80, 96, 166–67, 223, 224, 225; God as source of, 15, 173–74, 186, 201–2. See also action(s) alternatives, optimal. See Law of Optimality ancestors, worship of, 55, 56 angels, 76n26, 77 annihilation, 90, 91 appearance, reality vs., 22, 213 apperception, unity of, 185n32 appetite(s), 95, 96 appropriateness, virtue of, 56 argument(s): cosmological, 74n23, 109; from design, 25, 225; metaphysical, 5, 88; ontological, 74n23, 194, 210; physical, 75; from posse, 194; a posteriori, 10, 77, 131; a priori, 74n23, 77, 130, 172–73, 174, 180n25, 185n32 artists, 193 association, determinate, 76 asymmetry, 4, 17, 46–48, 58, 193, 201 asymptotes, 130–31 atomic age, 126, 127, 141–43 atomism, 181 axiogenetic optimality principle, 23–24, 218, 228 axiology, 24, 217–30 beauty, 33, 204 becoming, 2, 16, 22, 178, 201, 207, 213 beginning, Hegel’s concept of, 181–82 being(s), 21, 32, 77, 95, 148, 163, 207, 210, 215–16, 226; absence of, 140, 143, 144; Aquinas’s concept of, 87–89, 178; causes of, 40, 59, 86, 111–16, 144, 178–79, 184; in Chinese philosophy, 3–4, 58; contingent, 60, 133n21, 142, 143–45, 166–67; creation of, 144, 165; divine, 87–88, 204; God as source of, 13, 46, 90, 114, 134, 143, 164, 169, 191, 223n7; ground of, 11, 44n8, 125–45, 216; Hegel’s concept of, 15–16, 178–79; Heidegger’s concept of, 138; higher-level, 173, 175, 182, 209; historicity of, 11, 142–43, 144–45; indeterminate, 16, 71, 177–79, 181–82, 185, 192, 200–201; individuality of, 142, 143; intelligent, 223; necessary, 167; nothingness and, 16, 168, 178, 181–82; partaking of ousia, 30–31, 37–38; perfect, 94, 122n20, 178; Plato’s view of, 2, 210; positive, 20, 201; presence of, 140, 143, 144–45; pure, 174, 200–201; self-relation of, 139, 182, 183; self-transforming, 178–79; sufficient reason principle and, 9, 138; transcendent, 141, 143, 178, 184; as will, 138n32. See also angels; determinate beings; esse; fullness-of-being conceptions of God; God; God, existence of; Necessary Existent (Avicenna); non-being being as being: Aquinas on, 6, 87-88; Aristotle on, 5–6, 84–85, 87–89; Avicenna on, 66, 86; Heidegger on, 139–40, 141 Index of Topics 249 250   Index of Topics Bible: Exodus 3:14, 14, 163, 165 bodies, 121n19, 183 Buddhism, 17, 19, 192n3, 200 Cartesians, 12, 119, 120, 122, 158 categories, Hegel’s, 16, 178–80, 182–83, 184–85 causa sui doctrine, 8, 109–10, 111–16, 118, 119, 123–24, 167 causation, principle of, 11, 135, 144 cause(s), 87; of being as being, 84–85, 89; caused, 16, 85, 88; comprehensive, 181, 183–85, 188; cosmological, 47–48; of existence, 71, 72–75, 122, 174–75, 188, 218, 219; formal, 8, 113, 114, 123; God as, 79–80, 82–83, 97, 122, 133, 152–54, 187; Hegel’s concept of, 177–79; nature and, 40, 50, 178; reason distinguished from, 7, 100–101, 103, 105–6, 109–11, 112n5, 135; transcendent, 17, 177, 180, 183–87, 188; uncaused, 6, 85, 89, 105. See also agency/agents; creation; efficient cause; final cause; First Cause; First Principle; ground(s); reason(s); selfcausation ; ultimate cause cause-effect relationships, 8, 11, 68, 73, 93, 94, 121, 219–20 change: Aristotle’s concept of, 2, 14; Chinese concept of, 47, 49, 58, 60; Neville’s concept of, 53, 55–58; Parmenides on, 29, 207 chaos, 52–53, 75 choice. See God, as creator, free choice to; will Christianity, 92, 104, 148, 165, 166n95 circularity thesis, 67–70, 69 cognition, 39, 179 compatibilism, 131 complexity, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 45 compositeness, 36, 37, 174; matter-form, 15, 81n37, 171; of ousia, 31, 39 comprehensiveness, Hegel’s concept of, 14, 180–85, 186, 187, 188 conceptualization, 68 conditioned, the, 155–56 conflict, 53, 54 Confucianism, 4, 44n8, 46, 48, 55–57, 60–61 consciousness, 138, 216 constancy, 51, 51n33 containment, Descartes on, 121n19, 122 contingency, 11, 44, 109; cosmological, 3, 45–46; ontological, 3, 45; sufficient reason...

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