COURSE DESCRIPTION
This
course discusses some traditional and metaphysical problems such as the problem
of being, the mind-body problem, realism and nominalism, appearance and
reality, universals and particulars, the difference between metaphysical and
scientific explanation, substance, freedom, determinism, chance, fatalism,
participation, essence and existence, etc. It also
discusses the various branches and their subject of metaphysics in ways
that show the fundamental connection between metaphysics and other aspects of
philosophy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. General
Introduction
2. Clarifying
of
the term
“Metaphysics.”
2.1 Branches
of metaphysics
2.2 A
focus on General Metaphysics (Ontology)
3. Main
Problems of Ontology
3.1 Problem
of Being
3.2 Essence
and Existence
3.3 Realism,
Nominalism, Universalism
3.4 Mind-Body
problem
3.5 Appearance
and
Reality
3.6 Scientific
and Metaphysical explanations
3.7 Substance,
freedom, determinism, chance and
participation
4. Summary
5. Conclusion
6. Revision
and Examination
- Lecturer : liberatus isife