Necessity (Philosophy)
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Related terms:Narrower term:Used for:- Metaphysical necessity
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Purpose and Necessity in Social Theory (originally published 1987; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Maurice Mandelbaum (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)
- Necessity or Contingency: The Master Argument, by Jules Vuillemin (PDF at Stanford)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Ontology- Documentarity: Evidence, Ontology, and Inscription (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2019), by Ronald E. Day (HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
- Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics (Melbourne: Re.press, 2009), by Graham Harman (PDF at re-press.org)
- The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou's Minimalist Metaphysics (2008), by Sam Gillespie (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)
- Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Christoph Cox (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- Kant, Ontology, and the A Priori (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1968), by Moltke S. Gram (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), by Calvin L. Warren
- Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2013), by Timothy Morton (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
- La Chaîne des Harmonies: La Spirale et l'Enchaînement des Harmonies (in French: Paris: Bibliothèque Chacornac, 1910), by Paul Flambart (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
- On Being and Essence, by Saint Thomas Aquinas, trans. by Robert T. Miller (HTML at Fordham)
- Understanding Reality: A Commonsense Theory of the Original Cause (without appendices), by Stefan Hlatky and Philip Booth (HTML with commentary in the UK)
- The World and the Individual: Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Aberdeen (2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1901), by Josiah Royce
- Metaphysics: or, The Philosophy of Consciousness, Phenomenal and Real (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1860), by Henry Longueville Mansel (page images at Google)
- Sophist, by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler (HTML at Perseus)
- Sophist, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
- Philosophy and Christianity: A Series of Lectures Delivered in New York, in 1882, on the Eliy Foundation of the Union Theological Seminary (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1883), by George Sylvester Morris (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Philosophy of Person: Solidarity and Cultural Creativity (Polish philosophical studies, I; Washington: Paideia Press and the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1994), ed. by Józef Tischner, J. M. Yciski, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)
- Private and Public Social Inventions in Modern Societies (Washington: Paideia Press and the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1994), ed. by Leon Dyczewski, John Kromkowski, and Paul Peachey (multiple formats at Google)
- The Fountain of Life (Fons Vitae) (specially abridged edition; New York: Philosophical Library, 1962), by Ibn Gabirol, trans. by Harry E. Wedeck (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Parmenides, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
- The Heroic Enthusiasts, by Giordano Bruno, trans. by L. Williams (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Interaction of the Soul and the Body (multiple translations), by Emanuel Swedenborg
- Select Works of Porphyry: Containing His Four Books On Abstinence From Animal Food; His Treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and His Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures; With an Appendix Explaining the Allegory of the Wanderings of Ulysses (London: Printed for T. Rodd, 1823), by Porphyry, trans. by Thomas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Man a Machine, by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, trans. by Gertrude Carman Bussey (HTML with notes at bactra.org)
- Man a Machine (with Frederick the Great's eulogy of the author; Chicago: Open Court Pub. Co., 1912), by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, trans. by Gertrude Carman Bussey and Mary Whiton Calkins, contrib. by King of Prussia Frederick II
- A Dissertation on the Phaedon of Plato, or Dialogue of the Immortality of the Soul; With Some General Observations Upon the Writings of That Philosopher; To Which is Annexed, a Psychology, or an Abstract Investigation of the Nature of the Soul, in Which the Opinions of All the Celebrated Metaphysicians on That Subject are Discussed (London: Printed for the author and sold by T. Evans, 1773), by Charles Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Excellent Treatise of the Immortalytie of the Soule (London: Printed by I. Daye, 1581), by Jean Calvin, trans. by Thomas Stocker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Two Treatises: In the One of Which, The Nature of Bodies, In the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into, In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules (Paris: Printed by G. Blaizot, 1644), by Kenelm Digby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Two Treatises: In the One of Which, The Nature of Bodies, In the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into, In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules (London: Printed for J. Williams, 1645), by Kenelm Digby (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Des Dominicus Gundissalinus Schrift Von der Unsterblichkeit der Seele (with William of Auvergne's De Immortalitate Animae; in Latin with German commentary; Münster: Aschendorff, 1897), by Dominicus Gundissalinus, ed. by Georg Bülow, contrib. by William of Auvergne
- Johannis Pechami Quaestiones Tractantes de Anima (in Latin; Münster: Aschendorff, 1918), by John Peckham, ed. by Hieronymus Spettmann
- Pneumatologia: A Treatise of the Soul of Man, by John Flavel (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
- Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit, by Joseph Priestley (page images here ay Penn)
- A Treatise on the Soul, by Tertullian, trans. by Peter Holmes (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
- Select Works of Porphyry: Containing His Four Books On Abstinence From Animal Food; His Treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and His Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures; With an Appendix Explaining the Allegory of the Wanderings of Ulysses (London: Printed for T. Rodd, 1823), by Porphyry, trans. by Thomas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Praxis of Alain Badiou (2006), ed. by Paul Ashton, A. J. Bartlett, and Justin Clemens (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)
- The Secret of the Katha Upanishad, by Swami Krishnananda (HTML and PDF at Divine Life Society)
- Kategorienlehre (in German; Leipzig: H. Haacke, 1896), by Eduard von Hartmann
- How Change Happens (Oxford, UK et al.: Oxford University Press, c2016), by Duncan Green (PDF with commentary at how-change-happens.com)
- Principles and Persons: An Ethical Interpretation of Existentialism (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Frederick A. Olafson (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Phenomenology and Existentialism (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), ed. by Edward N. Lee and Maurice Mandelbaum (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Existential Marxism in Postwar France: From Sartre to Althusser, by Mark Poster (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Foucault, Marxism, and History: Mode of Production Versus Mode of Information, by Mark Poster (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Meditations on First Philosophy (translation c2012), by René Descartes, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
- Dante's Aesthetics of Being (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), by Warren Ginsberg (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Species in Denial (originally published 2003; revised online edition ca. 2009), by Jeremy Griffith, contrib. by Charles Birch (HTML and PDF with commentary at humancondition.com)
- Beyond the Human Condition (originally published 1991; online edition ca. 2012), by Jeremy Griffith, contrib. by Tim Macartney-Snape (HTML and PDF with commentary at humancondition.com)
- Free: The End of the Human Condition (originally published 1988; online edition first published 2003), by Jeremy Griffith (HTML and PDF with commentary at humancondition.com)
- Debating Humanity: Towards a Philosophical Sociology (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017), by Daniel Chernilo (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
- Death of the PostHuman ("Essays on Extinction v1"; Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), by Claire Colebrook (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
- Human Dignity: Values and Justice, ed. by Miloslav Bednár (multiple formats at Google)
- The Place of the Person in Social Life, ed. by Paul Peachey, John Kromkowski, and George F. McLean (PDF at crvp.org)
- Speculative Anthropologie, vom Christlich-Philosophischen Standpuncte Dargestellt (in German; Munich: J. J. Lentner, 1870), by Karl Werner (page images at HathiTrust)
- In Praise of Copying, by Marcus Boon (PDF with commentary at Harvard)
- Person and Society, ed. by George F. McLean and Hugo Meynell (PDF at crvp.org)
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