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The Nature of Existence

Disciplines:
metaphysics
existentialism/idealism

Summary

McTaggart's two-volume systematic metaphysics, arguing that only spirits and their love-relations truly exist — matter and time are appearances.

Core Contribution

Systematic idealist metaphysics: the universe is composed of selves (spirits) and their relations of love; matter and time are misperceptions of more fundamental spiritual realities. One of the most ambitious systematic metaphysics in English philosophy.

Historical Influences

J.M.E. McTaggart

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Allied Works

The Unreality of Time Some Dogmas of Religion

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