عنوان

Engaging political philosophy :from Hobbes to Rawls

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0872207978 (cloth : alk. paper)

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087220796X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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First Statement of Responsibility

Andrew levine

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author

Title Proper

Engaging political philosophy :from Hobbes to Rawls

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Indianapolis, IN :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Hackett Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2002

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

274p.

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مرجع به حساب نمي آيد

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- Reasoning: truth and prudence -- Grounds for belief -- What is an argument? -- Fallacies of theoretical rationality -- What is practical reasoning? -- Fallacies of practical rationality -- The greatest conceivable being -- Theological arguments -- Atheological arguments -- Right and wrong -- Ethical egoism -- Utilitarianism -- Critiques of utilitarianism -- Intermission : moral relativism -- Kantian ethics -- The matter of minds -- Plato's tripartite soul -- Descartes' division -- La Mettrie and machines -- Ryle and the category mistake -- The identity theory -- Minds as computers -- Consciousness -- Are you free? -- Universal determinism and its challenge to freedom -- Does quantum mechanics save freedom? -- Hume's compatibilism -- Libertarian critiques of Hume -- Hard determinism and the illusion of freedom -- Is conscious will an illusion? -- Freedom of will -- What is a person? -- Synnchronic and diachronic questions of identity -- Synchronic identity -- Memory links and identity over time -- Bodily continuity and identity over time.

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Philosophy

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Levine,Andrew