Being Philosophical

An Introduction to Philosophy and Its Methods
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5095-5457-7
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Being Philosophical guides readers through the perplexing initial moments of meeting philosophy by taking them inside philosophical thinking as an activity.

In a beginner-friendly voice, Stephen Hetherington elucidates how intellectual ‘tools’ from a diversity of traditions, East and West, can enable us to start doing philosophy – that is, to think ‘from scratch’ in a philosophical way. He explores many classical topics and issues that have preoccupied philosophers from Plato, early Buddhists and Confucius to Karl Marx and beyond – selves, souls, identity, will, knowing and reasoning, acting morally, and more – and presents possible methods for responding to different theories.

Inviting and conversational, Being Philosophical is the book needed by every new philosophy student – or anyone wondering whether they might want to explore the world of philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hetherington, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Organische Chemie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Extended Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction
1 Who Are You?
2 Philosophical Reading and Writing
3 How Do You Know?
4 Philosophical Reasoning
5 How Should You Act?
6 Philosophical Viewing

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Hetherington is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales.