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9781559344357

Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, Brief

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  • ISBN13:

    9781559344357

  • ISBN10:

    1559344350

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-01-13
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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Summary

This brief, inexpensive paperback version of the second edition of Moore and Bruder' s popular introductory text provides a unique topical/historical overview of each major subfield of philosophy.

Table of Contents

1. Dangerous Stuff

2. Metaphysics and Epistemology: Beginnings

3. Metaphysics and Epistemology: The Hellenistic and Christian Eras

4. Metaphysics and Epistemology: The Modern Period

5. Metaphysics and Epistemology: The 18th and 19th Centuries

6. Ethics

7. Political Philosophy

8. Philosophy of Religion

9. Some Current Issues in Philosophy

10. More Current Issues in Philosophy

11. Feminist Philosophy

12. The Continental Philosophers

13. Eastern Philosophy

Brief Selections from Primary Works / From Plato, the Republic / From Epicurus, “Epicurus to Menoecceus” / From Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism / From St. Anselm, Proslogion / From René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy / From Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil / From Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism / From John Searle, Minds, Brains, and Science / From James Rachels, “Killing and Starving to Death” / From Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Appendix 1: Logic

Appendix 2: Truth

Appendix 3: Knowledge

Glossary

Index

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