{"product_id":"metaphysics-and-mystery-thomas-dean-9781532076138","title":"Metaphysics and Mystery: The Why Question East and West","description":"Metaphysics and Mystery: The Why Question East and West is a critical analysis, comparison, and evaluation of philosophical answers, Western and Asian, to the question \"Why is there something rather than nothing?\" The question, first posed by the seventeenth-century philosopher Leibniz, was reintroduced in the twentieth century by Heidegger. Volume 1 begins with an introduction that lays out the issues raised by the why question. It then analyzes contemporary Western philosophers who provide either cosmological-metaphysical or existential-ontological answers to the question. It also considers transitional answers that bridge the two. Volume 2 examines Asian philosophers, classical and contemporary, who, though rejecting the assumptions behind the question, put forward nondualist answers that have a direct bearing on it. It concludes with an argument for a revised understanding of the why question that draws on the strengths and weaknesses of these Western and Asian philosophies and explores implications for ethics and religious thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Dean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1532076134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781532076138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.21d","brand":"Thomas Dean","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44138620059903,"sku":"9781532076138","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_359e0760-a755-4cf4-be20-d61ef765e01a.jpg?v=1687900648","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/metaphysics-and-mystery-thomas-dean-9781532076138","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}