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Final causality in nature and human affairs / edited by Richard F. Hassing.

Contributor(s): Hassing, Richard F, 1944-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy: v. 30.Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: v, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0813208912 (alk. paper)Subject(s): TeleologyDDC classification: 124 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index.
Contents:
Is finality included in Aristotle's definition of nature? / William A. Wallace -- Understanding Aristotle's teleology / Allan Gotthelf -- Ends and purposes / Francis Slade -- On the presumed medieval origin of individual rights / Ernest L. Fortin -- Moral finality and the unity of Homo sapiens : on teleology in Kant / Richard L. Velkley -- Unity and form in Kant's notion of purpose / David A. White -- The cunning of reason / John W. Burbidge -- The anthropic principle today / John Leslie -- Anthropic-principle cosmology : physics or metaphysics? / George Gale -- Modern natural science and the intelligibility of human experience / Richard F. Hassing.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index.

Is finality included in Aristotle's definition of nature? / William A. Wallace -- Understanding Aristotle's teleology / Allan Gotthelf -- Ends and purposes / Francis Slade -- On the presumed medieval origin of individual rights / Ernest L. Fortin -- Moral finality and the unity of Homo sapiens : on teleology in Kant / Richard L. Velkley -- Unity and form in Kant's notion of purpose / David A. White -- The cunning of reason / John W. Burbidge -- The anthropic principle today / John Leslie -- Anthropic-principle cosmology : physics or metaphysics? / George Gale -- Modern natural science and the intelligibility of human experience / Richard F. Hassing.

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