Being and Value

Frederick Ferre is Research Professor of Philosophy at The University of Georgia, Athens. He is the editor of Research in Philosophy and Technology and co-founded the Faculty of Environmental Ethics at the University of Georgia.

• Preface Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought David Ray Griffin, Editor1.  What Is Metaphysics? How Metaphysical Theories Are FamiliarHow Metaphysical Theories Are StrangeHow Metaphysical Theories Are ValuedPART ONE PREMODERN METAPHYSICS 2.  The Great Pioneers Cosmos and Decent OrderThe MilesiansThe PythagoreansChange or Permanence?Pluralists and AtomistsThe Sophists3.  The Great Hellenes SocratesPlatoAristotle4.  The Great Transition Value-Echoes of Some pre-SocraticsThe Platonic Value-LensThe Aristotelian Value-LensPremodern to ProtomodernPART TWO MODERN METAPHYSICS 5.  The Founders Renaissance Early ModernsNonmathematical Early ModernsKepler and GalileoHobbes and Descartes6.  The Prevalence of Matter Malebranche and SpinozaBoyle and NewtonPhilosophes and IdéologuesComte, Maxwell, and Einstein7.  The Primacy of Mind Leibniz and BerkeleyKantHegelBradley8.  The Pervasiveness of Change Marx and DarwinBergsonAlexanderWhiteheadPART THREE POSTMODERN METAPHYSICS 9.  Defining the Postmodern PoststructuralismLiberationismFeminismEnvironmentalism10. Toward an Ecological World Model Postmodern Ecological ScienceUnderstanding RelationsUnderstanding Entities11. Toward a Kalogenic Universe Fundamental Entities: In GeneralFundamental Entitles: In Basic StructureFundamental Entities: In ThemselvesThe Kalogenic Universe: In the Making12. Toward a Reconstructed Metaphysics Personalistic OrganicismConstructive PostmodernismAdequacy: The Material for ConstructionCoherence: The Manner of ConstructionWorks Cited Note on Centers Name Index Subject Index

"This volume is metaphysics with courage and conviction, set forth with persuasion and comprehensiveness, at a time when few people have such metaphysical courage, conviction, and comprehensiveness (and a great many people are cultured despisers of it)." — Holmes Rolston, Colorado State University