Professor MacKinnon devotes this book to a study of metaphysics.
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Metaphysics is usually taken to be that part of analytical philosophy which offers an account of the most basic and persuasive concepts we use, an inventory and analysis of such fundamental structural features of our world as existence, substance, change and quality. But there is a revisionary as well as a descriptive metaphysics.
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. 'Thrusting against the limits of language': an aspect of Plato's Republic; 3. Metaphysics 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. Miracle, irony, tragedy; 11. The transcendence of the tragic; 12. Ethics and tragedy; 13. The notion of presence; 14. Conclusion; Index of proper names.
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