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Fundamentals of philosophy /

0205242995

9780205242993

Fundamentals of philosophy /

[Book]

David Stewart, H. Gene Blocker, James Petrik.

Eighth edtion.

Boston :

Pearson,

[2013]

x, 531 pages ;

23 cm

Previously published: Seventh edition. Boston : Prentice Hall, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- PART 1: WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? : The activity of philosophy -- Philosophy's history -- Philosophy and the examined life -- PART 2: THINKING ABOUT THINKING (LOGIC) : The life of reason -- Argument forms -- Induction and the philosophy of science -- Strategies for philosophical arguments -- PART 3: WHAT IS REAL? (METAPHYSICS) : Introduction to metaphysics -- Dualism -- Materialism -- Idealism -- The mind-body problem and personal identity -- Freedom and determinism: the metaphysics of human agency -- PART 4: HOW DO WE KNOW? (EPISTOLOGY) : Introduction to epistemology -- Rene Descartes: the quest for certainty -- David Hume: trust your senses -- Immanuel Kant: a compromise -- Knowledge and human practices: the pragmatist tradition -- PART 5: WHAT OUGHT WE TO DO? (ETHICS) : Introduction to ethical reasoning -- Moral skepticism -- Morality and metaphysics -- Eudaemonism: the morality of self-realization -- Utilitarianism: morality depends on consequences -- Deontology: morality depends on motives -- PART 6: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: Introduction to philosophy of religion -- Religion and life's meaning -- A priori arguments for God's existence -- A posteriori arguments for God's existence : Aquinas' five ways -- The problem of evil -- PART 7: PHILOSOPHY OF ART (ESTHETICS) : Introduction to the philosophy of art -- The value of art -- Art as ideal -- Esthetics and ideology -- PART 8: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: Introduction to social and political philosophy -- The liberal, secular state -- The individual and the state -- Human rights -- Individual happiness and social responsibility -- PART 9: EASTERN THOUGHT: Philosophy East and West -- Confucian theories of human nature -- Hindu debate on monism -- Buddhist theory of emptiness.

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This philosophy book does two things: (1) introduces students to the major themes and thinkers in the philosophic tradition and (2) show how the issues students encounter in the great thinkers section apply to concerns they encounter in their life experiences.

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Philosophy.

Stewart, David,1938-

Blocker, H. Gene.

Petrik, James M.

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