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Thinking philosophically : an invitation to join the great debates / David Roochnik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roochnik, David, author.
- Series:
- New York Academy of Sciences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- Thought and thinking.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Thinking Philosophically: An Introduction to the Great Debates presents a highly accessible introduction to five of the most fundamental debates in world philosophy. * Introduces five fundamental philosophical debates in a highly engaging and accessible manner that invites readers to enter the discussion themselves * Features chapters that each consider a central philosophical question dialectically by exploring the conflicting approaches of different philosophers * Argues that the work of philosophers like Plato and Rousseau is just as relevant today as it was in their own time * Provides a structure that encourages readers to apply philosophical principles to their everyday lives
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 An Introduction to Philosophy
- What Makes Philosophers Tick?
- Five Questions
- Reading Great Books
- An Introduction to Socrates
- Note
- Chapter 2 Alone or With Others?
- The Question
- Rousseau's Answer
- The State of Nature
- Society
- Aristotle's Answer
- Community Is Natural
- Teleology
- By Nature Political
- Animals with Logos
- By Nature Unequal
- Resolving the Dispute: Social-Political or Solitary?
- Notes
- Chapter 3 What Should We Do?
- Mill's Answer
- What Is Happiness?
- Utilitarianism Is Crude
- Utilitarianism Is Selfish
- Utilitarianism Becomes Moral Fanaticism
- Utilitarians Are Frigid
- Utilitarianism Is Expedient
- Utilitarianism Is Unjust
- Utilitarianism Is Fantasy
- Kant's Answer
- The Good Will
- Consequences and Morality
- Duty
- Universality
- Egalitarianism
- Ordinary Moral Intuitions
- The Dear Self
- Resolving the Dispute: Consequences or Duty?
- Chapter 4 Whom Should We Emulate? (1)
- Happiness and Excellence
- Precision in Ethics
- Character
- Aristotle on Climate Change
- Nietzsche's Answer
- Resolving the Dispute: Virtue or Power?
- Chapter 5 Whom Should We Emulate? (2)
- Confucius's Answer
- Filial Piety
- Ritual
- Leadership
- What if the Father Is a Bad Guy?
- Lao-Tzu's Answer
- Anti-Teleology
- Water
- Paradox
- Non-Action (Wu Wei)
- Resolving the Dispute: Superior Man or Child?
- Chapter 6 What Do You Know?
- Descartes's Answer
- Descartes's Education
- The Cogito
- The Existence of God
- Masters and Possessors of Nature
- Hume's Answer
- Ideas from Impressions
- Principles of Association
- Skeptical Doubts.
- Skeptical Solution of Skeptical Doubts
- Hume on Global Warming
- Resolving the Dispute: Rationalism or Empiricism?
- Chapter 7 Being in Time
- Saint Augustine's Answer
- Time and the Eternal
- The Cry of the Present
- The Subjective Reality of Time
- Reason to Pray
- The Nature of Sin
- Digression 1: Pythagoras
- Digression 2: Platonic Forms
- Nietzsche (on Heraclitus) on Time
- Becoming
- Play
- Resolving the Dispute: Being or Becoming?
- Epilogue
- Works Cited
- 1 An Introduction to Philosophy
- 2 Alone or With Others?
- 3 What Should We Do?
- 4 Whom Should We Emulate? (1)
- 5 Whom Should We Emulate? (2)
- 6 What Do You Know?
- 7 Being in Time
- Index
- EULA.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781119066996
- 1119066999
- 9781119066972
- 1119066972
- OCLC:
- 918986682
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