{"product_id":"metaphysics-and-mystery-the-why-question-east-and-west-9781532076138","title":"Metaphysics and Mystery: The Why Question East and West","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Thomas Dean\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Religious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMetaphysics and Mystery: The Why Question East and West is a critical analysis, comparison, and evaluation of philosophical answers, Western and Asian, to the question \"Why is there something rather than nothing?\" The question, first posed by the seventeenth-century philosopher Leibniz, was reintroduced in the twentieth century by Heidegger. Volume 1 begins with an introduction that lays out the issues raised by the why question. It then analyzes contemporary Western philosophers who provide either cosmological-metaphysical or existential-ontological answers to the question. It also considers transitional answers that bridge the two. Volume 2 examines Asian philosophers, classical and contemporary, who, though rejecting the assumptions behind the question, put forward nondualist answers that have a direct bearing on it. It concludes with an argument for a revised understanding of the why question that draws on the strengths and weaknesses of these Western and Asian philosophies and explores implications for ethics and religious thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45130963288215,"sku":"9781532076138","price":2189.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781532076138.webp?v=1767905862","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/metaphysics-and-mystery-the-why-question-east-and-west-9781532076138","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}