"A Rose Hill book"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Why existence does not emerge as a distinct concept in Greek philosophy / Charles H. Kahn -- Being and forms in Plato / Paul Seligman -- Doctrine of being in the Aristotelian metaphysics - revisited / Joseph Owens -- Aspects of ancient ontologies / John P. Anton -- Ontological relation between evil and existients in Manichaean texts and in Augustine's interpretation of Manichaeism / Christoper J. Brunner -- Ontological problems in Nyaya, Buddhism, and Jainism : a comparative analysis / Bimal Krishna Matilal -- Scotistic approach to the ultimate why-question / Allan B. Wolter -- Relationship between essence and existence in late thirteenth-century thought : Giles of Rome, Henry of Ghent, Godfrey of Fontaines, and James of Viterbo / John F. Wipple -- Metaphysical foundations of the hierarachy of being according to some late-Medieval and Renaissance philosophers / Edward P. Mahoney -- Attribute, attributions, and being : three Islamic views / Richard M. Frank -- Al-Suhrawardi's critique of the Muslim peripatetics / Majid Fakhry -- Greek sources of some Near Eastern philosophies of being and existence / Parviz Morewedge -- Post-Avicennan Islamic philosophy and the study of being / Seyyed Hossein Nasr.