MacKinnon, Donald M.

The problem of metaphysics / Donald M. MacKinnon - New York : Cambridge University Press, 1974 - 172 p. ; 25 cm.

Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 'Thrusting against th elimits of language': an aspect of Plato's Republic -- 3 Metphysics and fact -- 4 Empiricism: a note -- 5 Ethics and metaphysics -- 6 Parable, ethics and metaphysics I -- 7 Parable, ethics and metaphysics II -- 8 Return to Plato and Aristotle -- 9 Empiricism and transcendence -- 10 Miricle, irony, tragedy -- 11 The transcendence of the tragic -- 12 Ethics and tragedy -- 13 The notion of presence -- Conclusion -- Index of porper names.

BD111 / .M2 1974