TY - BOOK AU - MacKinnon, Donald M. TI - The problem of metaphysics AV - BD111 .M2 1974 PY - 1974/// CY - New York : PB - Cambridge University Press N1 - 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 ER -