1 What Are We Doing in This Class?
Is Philosophy Possible?
The Origins of Philosophy
Contemporary Branches of Philosophy
Epistemology
Ontology
Ethics
Political and Social Philosophy
Aesthetics
Logic
Contemporary Styles of Philosophy
The Philosophy of Socrates
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
2 Truth Is Beauty; Beauty Is Truth
Rationalist Epistemology
The Philosophy of Plato
Images
Sensible Objects
Concepts
Forms
René Descartes’s Rationalism
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
3 What You See Is What You Get
Empiricist Epistemology
The Empiricism of John Locke
Simple and Complex Ideas
Primary and Secondary Qualities
Substance
Berkeley’s Correction of Locke
Sense Data
The Source of Sense Data
Hume’s Radicalization of Berkeley’s Empiricism
Logical Positivism: The Further Radicalization of Empiricism
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Notion of Sense Data
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Language
Kant’s Compromise
Conclusion: Getting Up-to-Date
Quine’s Contribution
Rationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?
Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
The Origins of Philosophy
Contemporary Branches of Philosophy
Epistemology
Ontology
Ethics
Political and Social Philosophy
Aesthetics
Logic
Contemporary Styles of Philosophy
The Philosophy of Socrates
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
2 Truth Is Beauty; Beauty Is Truth
Rationalist Epistemology
The Philosophy of Plato
Images
Sensible Objects
Concepts
Forms
René Descartes’s Rationalism
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
3 What You See Is What You Get
Empiricist Epistemology
The Empiricism of John Locke
Simple and Complex Ideas
Primary and Secondary Qualities
Substance
Berkeley’s Correction of Locke
Sense Data
The Source of Sense Data
Hume’s Radicalization of Berkeley’s Empiricism
Logical Positivism: The Further Radicalization of Empiricism
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Notion of Sense Data
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Language
Kant’s Compromise
Conclusion: Getting Up-to-Date
Quine’s Contribution
Rationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?
Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Epistemology
Ontology
Ethics
Political and Social Philosophy
Aesthetics
Logic
Contemporary Styles of Philosophy
The Philosophy of Socrates
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
2 Truth Is Beauty; Beauty Is Truth
Rationalist Epistemology
The Philosophy of Plato
Images
Sensible Objects
Concepts
Forms
René Descartes’s Rationalism
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
3 What You See Is What You Get
Empiricist Epistemology
The Empiricism of John Locke
Simple and Complex Ideas
Primary and Secondary Qualities
Substance
Berkeley’s Correction of Locke
Sense Data
The Source of Sense Data
Hume’s Radicalization of Berkeley’s Empiricism
Logical Positivism: The Further Radicalization of Empiricism
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Notion of Sense Data
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Language
Kant’s Compromise
Conclusion: Getting Up-to-Date
Quine’s Contribution
Rationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?
Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
2 Truth Is Beauty; Beauty Is Truth
Rationalist Epistemology
The Philosophy of Plato
Images
Sensible Objects
Concepts
Forms
René Descartes’s Rationalism
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
3 What You See Is What You Get
Empiricist Epistemology
The Empiricism of John Locke
Simple and Complex Ideas
Primary and Secondary Qualities
Substance
Berkeley’s Correction of Locke
Sense Data
The Source of Sense Data
Hume’s Radicalization of Berkeley’s Empiricism
Logical Positivism: The Further Radicalization of Empiricism
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Notion of Sense Data
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Language
Kant’s Compromise
Conclusion: Getting Up-to-Date
Quine’s Contribution
Rationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?
Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
2 Truth Is Beauty; Beauty Is Truth
Rationalist Epistemology
The Philosophy of Plato
Images
Sensible Objects
Concepts
Forms
René Descartes’s Rationalism
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
3 What You See Is What You Get
Empiricist Epistemology
The Empiricism of John Locke
Simple and Complex Ideas
Primary and Secondary Qualities
Substance
Berkeley’s Correction of Locke
Sense Data
The Source of Sense Data
Hume’s Radicalization of Berkeley’s Empiricism
Logical Positivism: The Further Radicalization of Empiricism
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Notion of Sense Data
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Language
Kant’s Compromise
Conclusion: Getting Up-to-Date
Quine’s Contribution
Rationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?
Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
2 Truth Is Beauty; Beauty Is Truth
Rationalist Epistemology
The Philosophy of Plato
Images
Sensible Objects
Concepts
Forms
René Descartes’s Rationalism
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
3 What You See Is What You Get
Empiricist Epistemology
The Empiricism of John Locke
Simple and Complex Ideas
Primary and Secondary Qualities
Substance
Berkeley’s Correction of Locke
Sense Data
The Source of Sense Data
Hume’s Radicalization of Berkeley’s Empiricism
Logical Positivism: The Further Radicalization of Empiricism
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Notion of Sense Data
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Language
Kant’s Compromise
Conclusion: Getting Up-to-Date
Quine’s Contribution
Rationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?
Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
The Philosophy of Plato
Images
Sensible Objects
Concepts
Forms
René Descartes’s Rationalism
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
3 What You See Is What You Get
Empiricist Epistemology
The Empiricism of John Locke
Simple and Complex Ideas
Primary and Secondary Qualities
Substance
Berkeley’s Correction of Locke
Sense Data
The Source of Sense Data
Hume’s Radicalization of Berkeley’s Empiricism
Logical Positivism: The Further Radicalization of Empiricism
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Notion of Sense Data
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Language
Kant’s Compromise
Conclusion: Getting Up-to-Date
Quine’s Contribution
Rationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?
Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Images
Sensible Objects
Concepts
Forms
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
3 What You See Is What You Get
Empiricist Epistemology
The Empiricism of John Locke
Simple and Complex Ideas
Primary and Secondary Qualities
Substance
Berkeley’s Correction of Locke
Sense Data
The Source of Sense Data
Hume’s Radicalization of Berkeley’s Empiricism
Logical Positivism: The Further Radicalization of Empiricism
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Notion of Sense Data
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Language
Kant’s Compromise
Conclusion: Getting Up-to-Date
Quine’s Contribution
Rationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?
Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Notes
3 What You See Is What You Get
Empiricist Epistemology
The Empiricism of John Locke
Simple and Complex Ideas
Primary and Secondary Qualities
Substance
Berkeley’s Correction of Locke
Sense Data
The Source of Sense Data
Hume’s Radicalization of Berkeley’s Empiricism
Logical Positivism: The Further Radicalization of Empiricism
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Notion of Sense Data
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Language
Kant’s Compromise
Conclusion: Getting Up-to-Date
Quine’s Contribution
Rationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?
Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Empiricist Epistemology
The Empiricism of John Locke
Simple and Complex Ideas
Primary and Secondary Qualities
Substance
Berkeley’s Correction of Locke
Sense Data
The Source of Sense Data
Hume’s Radicalization of Berkeley’s Empiricism
Logical Positivism: The Further Radicalization of Empiricism
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Notion of Sense Data
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Language
Kant’s Compromise
Conclusion: Getting Up-to-Date
Quine’s Contribution
Rationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?
Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Simple and Complex Ideas
Primary and Secondary Qualities
Substance
Berkeley’s Correction of Locke
Sense Data
The Source of Sense Data
Hume’s Radicalization of Berkeley’s Empiricism
Logical Positivism: The Further Radicalization of Empiricism
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Notion of Sense Data
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Language
Kant’s Compromise
Conclusion: Getting Up-to-Date
Quine’s Contribution
Rationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?
Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Sense Data
The Source of Sense Data
Logical Positivism: The Further Radicalization of Empiricism
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Notion of Sense Data
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Language
Kant’s Compromise
Conclusion: Getting Up-to-Date
Quine’s Contribution
Rationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?
Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Notion of Sense Data
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Language
Conclusion: Getting Up-to-Date
Quine’s Contribution
Rationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?
Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Quine’s Contribution
Rationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?
Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?
Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Materialism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Notes
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Philosophy of Religion
Theism
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Hume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof
The Teleological Argument
Darwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof
Atheism
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”
Marx’s Response to Feuerbach
Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of Religion
Religious Mysticism
Religious Existentialism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes 208
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
6 The Largest Airline in the Free World
Philosophy of Freedom
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views
Hard Determinism: Modern Views
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
The Attack on Free Will
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Indeterminism
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Libertarianism
Existential Freedom
Perverse Freedom
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Notes
7 Thou Shalt Become Perfected
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Ethics
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Justice/Morality
City/Soul
Egoism
Utilitarianism
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
The Calculus of Felicity
The Quality of Pleasure
Utilitarianism’s Problems
Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Kantianism Today?
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Kant’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Kant’s Third Formulation
Contractualism
Virtue Ethics
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
8 Different Strokes for Different Folks
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Existentialism
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Logical Positivism
Cultural Relativism
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
No Universally Held Moral Values
No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People
Ethics and Feminism
Ethics and Deep Ecology
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
9 Let Them Eat Cake
Political and Social Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Political Philosophy
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Social Philosophy
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Plato 327
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Communism
The Minimal State
Liberalism
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
10 But Is It Art?
Philosophy of Art
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Analytic Philosophy of Art
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Wittgenstein
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld
Plato, Freud, and Art
Aristotle and Art
Marx and Art
Existentialism and Art
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index
Analysis of Expressionism
Analysis of Formalism
Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience
Analysis of Conventionalism
Analysis of Realism
Open Concepts
A Form of Life: The Artworld