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Summary | p. 5 |
Introduction | p. 9 |
The Problem of the Motive for Creation | p. 11 |
Madigan's argument | p. 12 |
Madigan's claim | p. 16 |
Assessment of Madigan's argument | p. 16 |
Aristotle's initiation of the argument | p. 17 |
Avoiding Aristotle's argument | p. 17 |
The problem of direct Creation | p. 18 |
Confronting Aristotle's argument | p. 20 |
Aristotle's hidden assumption | p. 20 |
Is the world in process? | p. 21 |
Madigan's other claim | p. 23 |
Natural Theology and the Motive for Creation | p. 24 |
The Work of Nicolai Hartmann | p. 33 |
The Teleological nexus and the Causal nexus | p. 34 |
Hartmann's analysis of Spiritual Being | p. 35 |
Hartmann's Ethics and the role of Values | p. 39 |
An explanation of these phenomena | p. 45 |
Hartmann's antinomies | p. 47 |
Hartmann's Ontology | p. 50 |
Strata and Levels distinguished | p. 52 |
Hartmann's analysis of Freedom | p. 57 |
The Emergence of Homo Sapiens Ethicus | p. 59 |
The Nature of Man | p. 59 |
Homo Sapiens Ethicus | p. 61 |
The Relevance of Myth and History | p. 67 |
Emergence of Spiritual Consciousness | p. 69 |
The Axial Period | p. 71 |
The Process of the Cosmos | p. 74 |
The Process of Self-Creation | p. 74 |
Altruism and Morality | p. 76 |
The Emergence of a Moral Sense | p. 77 |
The Problem of Evil | p. 78 |
Man, Culture and Deity | p. 80 |
The Role of Culture | p. 83 |
The Good of Man | p. 84 |
Emergence and the World Process | p. 87 |
Emergence | p. 89 |
Criteria of Emergent Levels | p. 90 |
The Emergent Levels | p. 91 |
Theories of Emergent Evolution | p. 93 |
The Miracle of Life | p. 100 |
Miracles and Emergence | p. 101 |
The World Process | p. 101 |
The Laws of Nature and Natural Law | p. 103 |
The Explanation of the World | p. 105 |
Self-Existence | p. 105 |
The Emergence of Life | p. 108 |
Challenges to Neo-Darwinism | p. 109 |
Does Life have an Intrinsic Ordering Principle? | p. 111 |
Critique of Harris | p. 116 |
Other Critiques of Neo-Darwinism | p. 117 |
Neo-Darwinism and Biochemistry | p. 121 |
Cosmological Natural Selection? | p. 122 |
Conclusion | p. 124 |
Bibliography | p. 127 |
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