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Index
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Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Bad Religion
“The New Atheism”
The old philosophy
The abuse of science
Religion and counterreligion
Things to come
2. Greeks Bearing Gifts
From Thales to Socrates
Plato’s Theory of Forms
Realism, nominalism, and conceptualism
Aristotle’s metaphysics
A. Actuality and potentiality
B. Form and matter
C. The four causes
3. Getting Medieval
What Aquinas didn’t say
The existence of God
A. The Unmoved Mover
B. The First Cause
C. The Supreme Intelligence
4. Scholastic Aptitude
The soul
Natural law
Faith, reason, and evil
5. Descent of the Modernists
Prebirth of the modern
Thoroughly modern metaphysics
Inventing the mind-body problem
Universal acid
A. The problem of skepticism
B. The problem of induction
C. Personal identity
D. Free will
E. Natural rights
F. Morality in general
Back to Plato’s cave
6. Aristotle’s Revenge
How to lose your mind
The lump under the rug
Irreducible teleology
A. Biological phenomena
B. Complex inorganic systems
C. Basic laws of nature
It’s the moon, stupid
Endnotes
Index
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