Buch, Englisch, 574 Seiten, Format (B × H): 192 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 991 g
An Introductory Guide with Readings
Buch, Englisch, 574 Seiten, Format (B × H): 192 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 991 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-513131-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
Combining the problems and the historical approaches, this introduction to philosophy includes chapters on the major problems or questions in philosophy - what we can know, what exists, the mind-body problem, the existence of God, what is moral, etc. It addresses these problems by focusing each chapter on a particular text by a major philosopher.
This introduction to philosophy combines the two approaches most commonly employed to teach philosophy to college freshmen - the problems approach and the historical approach. It includes chapters on the major problems or questions in philosophy - what we can know, what exists, the mind-body problem, the existence of God, what is moral, etcetera - and it addresses these problems by focusing each chapter on a particular text by a major philosopher.
Preface; Introduction: A Compass and a Map; PART ONE: METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY; 1. The Soul and its Wisdom; Plato's Meno; 2. Substance and the Changing World; Aristotle's Metaphysics; 3. Universals, Particulars, and the Concept of Truth; Ockham's Summa Logicae I; 4. Reason, Knowledge, and Certainty; Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy; 5. Existence and Nature of God; Berkeley's Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous; PART TWO; ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY; 6. Moral Rights, Obligations and Responsibility; Kant's Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals; 7. Consequences of Actions in Ethical Conduct; Mill's Utilitarianism; 8. Individual Values and the Will to Power; Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality; 9. Philosophical Analysis of the Concept of Good; Moore's Principia Ethica; 10. Justice and the Social Good in Political Decision Making; Rawl's A Theory of Justice
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This introduction to philosophy combines the two approaches most commonly employed to teach philosophy to college freshmen - the problems approach and the historical approach. It includes chapters on the major problems or questions in philosophy - what we can know, what exists, the mind-body problem, the existence of God, what is moral, etcetera - and it addresses these problems by focusing each chapter on a particular text by a major philosopher.
Preface; Introduction: A Compass and a Map; PART ONE: METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY; 1. The Soul and its Wisdom; Plato's Meno; 2. Substance and the Changing World; Aristotle's Metaphysics; 3. Universals, Particulars, and the Concept of Truth; Ockham's Summa Logicae I; 4. Reason, Knowledge, and Certainty; Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy; 5. Existence and Nature of God; Berkeley's Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous; PART TWO; ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY; 6. Moral Rights, Obligations and Responsibility; Kant's Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals; 7. Consequences of Actions in Ethical Conduct; Mill's Utilitarianism; 8. Individual Values and the Will to Power; Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality; 9. Philosophical Analysis of the Concept of Good; Moore's Principia Ethica; 10. Justice and the Social Good in Political Decision Making; Rawl's A Theory of Justice
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